We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery
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One of 2005's unexpected successes, We Are Scientists have had the unusual luxury of three years to record the difficult second album. However, their follow-up to the 150,000-selling Love and Squalor seems unduly indebted to their peers: fellow New Yorkers the Strokes and particularly the Killers. After Hours is so close to the latter's All These Things That I've Done, you half expect Brandon Flowers to leap out of the stereo. We Are Scientists fare much better when imposing their guitars on the less predictable ends of 1980s pop. Lethal Enforcer has the kind of strolling bassline once heard on Paul Young records, but a chorus to die for. Spoken For nods to Joe Jackson, of all people, for a haunting anthem about...
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