We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor

Artist: We Are Scientists
Album: With Love and Squalor
Genre: Indie/Rock/Alternative
Release Date: January 10, 2006
Label: Virgin Records Us

Tracklisting:

1. Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt
2. This Scene is Dead
3. Inaction
4. Can't Lose
5. Callbacks
6. Cash Cow
7. It's a Hit
8. The Great Escape
9. Textbook
10. Lousy Reputation
11. Worth the Wait
12. What's the Word

Obvious touchstones include Franz Ferdinand (on fun setting) and the wit, jerk, and pop inclination of XTC circa Drums and Wires and Black Sea. Exploding into action with the adrenalin swoop of "Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt" and "This Scene Is Dead" and taking in such other fine moments as the reggaefied "Can't Lose" and the Terrorvision-meets-Buzzcocks "Callbacks," the album nods to the mope-rock of the Cure on the philosophical experience-is-the-best-teacher procrastination of "Textbook." With Love and Squalor places We Are Scientists in line for this year's Nobel Prize for punk-pop novelty. --Kevin Maidment

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