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| Artist: We Are Scientists
Label: EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 1310
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099952132209
ASIN: B0012NHN72
Release Date: March 17, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| » | Ghouls | | » | Let's See It | | » | After Hours | | » | Lethal Enforcer | | » | Impatience | | » | Tonight | | » | Spoken For | | » | Altered Beast | | » | Chick Lit | | » | Dinosaurs | | » | That's What Counts |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Brooklyn's We Are Scientists make it to their second album, Brain Thrust Mastery, a man down--drummer Michael Tapper departed the band in late 2007--but with a new sound and a refreshed ambition. While 2005's With Love and Squalor marked them out as The Strokes' preppier cousins, lean guitar-indie with arch lyrics and driving tempos, Brain Thrust Mastery has more than rehash on its mind. It's an album that's both bigger and poppier than its predecessor--see gleaming first single "After Hours"--but also eager to experiment and branch out. The opening "Ghouls" echoes fellow Brooklynites TV on the Radio, a synthetic mesh of ticking rhythms, dubby bass and multi-tracked vocals, frontman Keith Murray singing: "We all recognise/That I'm the problem here", while "Lethal Enforcer" is a sly piece of '80s pop revivalism that somehow channels the smooth synths and echoing drums of Phil Collins without quite tipping over into kitsch. There's the occasional dropped ball here--"Spoken For", a serene, Tropicalia-tinted love ballad is interrupted around the mid-point by some unnecessary, pompous flying-V action--but on the whole, this is smart pop music that's clever but crucially, seldom clever-clever. --Louis Pattison
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 Top Notch Album July 17, 2008
I have always loved we are scientists! They are down to earth guys who create great music, so when i got this album i worried it may not live up to my expectations but it absolutely did! I've listened to all of the songs so many times and it never gets boring. I recently went to see them live and they are amazing live, they actually sound like they do on the album which means they dont 'perfect' and 'touch up' their voices using technology which just adds to what i love about them! Awesome album. Awesome Band.
Different but Great June 13, 2008
It's easy to note from this album that the band has matured. If you are looking for more of what was in the first album you will be disappointed. However, this album is great, it's mellow and more melodic. The hard hitting lyrics and drinking binge songs have been replaced by more tranquil tracks. I loved the first album and I love this one, for different reasons.
Give it a chance!! May 4, 2008
I am one of many, many people that own 'With Love and Squalor', and will put it into their list of favorite albums. It has so many hits, so many awesome fast paced songs which will enlighten even the dullest of days.
This album, upon its first listen I found a slight repetitiveness to it, perhaps too much experimentation. But after a couple of weeks of giving it a chance, I completely changed my mind about it.
It's not an album I will love as much as their first, but it is certainly one I will recommend to anybody.
It's no "With Love and Squalor" ... April 23, 2008
.....But excellent nonetheless
More experimental and a bit quieter, but well worth it
Great April 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Have kind of avoided these in the past, but loved there singles "Nobody move"
etc. After Hours sneaked into my consciousness. Leathal Enforcer is an 80s treat that buys its way in by being a great tune, Cant wait for the third LP,x s
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