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Title: Brain Thrust Mastery
Release date: 13 May, 2008
Record label: EMI
Single: After Hours
Official website: We Are Scientists
Buy at: Amazon
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Tracklisting
Disc: 1
1. Ghouls
2. Let's See It
3. After Hours
4. Lethal Enforcer
5. Impatience
6. Tonight
7. Spoken For
8. Altered Beast
9. Chick Lit
10. Dinosaurs
11. That's What Counts
Disc: 2
1. Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt
2. Lethal Enforcer
3. Impatience
4. Let's See It
5. It's A Hit
6. After Hours
7. The Great Escape
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We Are Scientists are freaking out and the reason is that they got the Kings of Leon tour this fall. W.A.S. will spend five weeks in October and November supporting the Southern Rock icons in a slew of American cities that includes Milwaukee.
Until then, New Yorkers Keith Murray (guitar, lead vocals) and Chris Cain (bass, receded reverby vocals), along with stage mates Max Hart (keys, shrieks) and Adam Aaronson (drums, haircut), will bring their hook-heavy, chop-confident second album, Brain Thrust Mastery, back to Europe for a late-summer seven-country swing that will include the U.K., where the album debuted at No. 11, and a jaunt supporting R.E.M. in Italy, Germany, Lithuania, and Spain. Early October will see the band in Australia for a week of headliners before they literally double their skymile take by flying back home to join Kings of Leon.
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The band was on CBS's The Late Show With David Letterman last month playing the single After Hours, about which Letterman himself exclaimed, immediately post-performance, "That's exactly what we're looking for... the beauty!" W.A.S.' seamless fusion of pop-rock influences stretching from the Sixties to 2012, their "nimble melodies and kinetic enthusiasm", were all praised as "hard to resist" by Alternative Press. A closer look revealed, though, that nine out of every ten employees of the Alternative Press did manage to resist when faced with the album in stores. We Are Scientists released their first album, With Love and Squalor, in 2005, scoring three major British hit singles and gold-certified album sales in the UK.
The single, "After Hours" (Astralwerks) is climbing the Alternative chart.
tour dates
On Tour with Kings of Leon, Fall 2008:
Sat-Oct-11 Las Vegas, NV The Joint /Hard Rock Hotel
Sun-Oct-12 San Diego, CA House Of Blues
Wed-Oct-15 Los Angeles, CA Nokia Theatre
Fri-Oct-17 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
Sat-Oct-18 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
Mon-Oct-20 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre
Tue-Oct-21 Portland, OR Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Thu-Oct-23 Denver, CO The Fillmore
Sat-Oct-25 Austin, TX Austin Music Hall
Sun-Oct-26 Oklahoma City, OK Bricktown Ballroom
Tue-Oct-28 Houston, TX Verizon Wireless Theater
Wed-Oct-29 Dallas, TX The Palladium Ballroom
Fri-Oct-31 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
Sat-Nov-01 Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theatre
Mon-Nov-03 St Louis, MO The Pageant
Wed-Nov-05 Milwaukee, WI Eagles Ballroom
Fri-Nov-07 Toronto, ON Kool Haus
Sat-Nov-08 Detroit, MI The Fillmore
Mon-Nov-10 Washington, DC DAR Constitution Hall
Thu-Nov-13 Boston, MA Orpheum
Sat-Nov-15 Philadelphia, PA The Electric Factory
Tue-Nov-18 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
Wed-Nov-19 Nashville, TN Nashville Municipal Auditorium
biography
We Are Scientists shocked themselves and impressed many others with their 2005 debut With Love & Squalor. On the strength of dancefloor standbys "Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt;" "It's A Hit;" and "The Great Escape" (as well as nine other songs that, to all appearances, people also liked) the album sold over 150,000 copies in the UK and earned them praise from fans and critics back home in the US as well.
The band spent 2007 at weight-loss camps, alcoholics' dry-out facilities, and a race car school, yet has also found time to pen, record, and road-test their sophomore offering, Brain Thrust Mastery. If W.A.S.'s first album had been far, far better than it was, and of a far more mature style, and if they had then released a limp, unenjoyable second record, and if Brain Thrust Mastery were actually their third album, it would be hailed as 'a return to form', as 'equal to -- in many ways an improvement upon -- the monumental debut'.
We Are Scientists began, in spirit, at Pomona College, in Claremont, California, in the Fall of 1997, when Keith Murray and Chris Cain met at a viewing of Dawson's Creek held in the latter's dorm room. Though at the time they couldn't suspect any of the details of the coming decade, it was apparent to both of them that they would spend many long years riding buses together -- some kind of pro-sports, they assumed. In 1999, freshly graduated and moved to Berkeley, CA, the two started We Are Scientists with little more between them than a dream, a couple of cut-rate instruments, and $1.4 million in lottery winnings.
Nine years later, the band has long-since relocated to more fashionable New York City, seen many countries their parents swore to them were 'myth, accursed myth', and finally dated girls. In the Fall of '07, long-time drummer Michael Tapper retired from the band, and We Are Scientists added a new drummer, plus, in a fit of accumulation, a fourth man on-stage. Keith and Chris also began giving inspirational lectures at universities across the UK during their hitherto unencumbered afternoons. On Brain Thrust Mastery, all of their experience (and some they only read about) shows.
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