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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 18 reviews)
Sales Rank: 189
Category: Music
Artist: We Are Scientists
Publisher: EMI
Studio: EMI
Manufacturer: EMI
Label: EMI
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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| Tracks:
| • | 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 13 more reviews...
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
 A distinct wrong turn April 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really liked Love & Squalor so it was with an immense disappointment that I got to grips with the lead single from the new We Are Scientists album, After Hours. Whilst not being offensive in any way, it wasn't really very good. And the video seemed to sum up the potential problem with their second album. Lyrically they clearly feel the need to get more serious but visually they were stuck in their "kooky" past.
And listening to the album there is, to me at least, a definite feeling of it being stuck between two different paymasters. In an attempt to "grow up" or mature their sound they've ended up sounding like perhaps the most terrible thing you could label a record; dull.
The odd moment of clarity aside (Impatience, Lethal Enforcer) you find yourself merely longing for the "old" We Are Scientists.
More subtle than first time round, but equally charming! April 12, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having been disappointed by the follow-ups by most of the bands I liked in 05/06, I was worried that We Are Scientists might go the same way: they'd always been this lovable three-piece with catchy tunes, a good live show and a bizarre underground status despite the fact that seemingly everyone had their album (and an 'I Are Scientists' shirt).
On first listen to Brain Thrust Mastery, I was disappointed. Yeah, it was okay, but I couldn't see myself ever particularly wanting to put it on. A few days later, I decided that it might be a grower and listened to it on a loop for most of the morning - and I am so, so glad that I did, because otherwise I would have missed out on a great album, and consigned to my mental scrapheap a band that haven't lost it after all with their second album.
It's definitely a progression from the first album - the 80s sheen of Lethal Enforcer, echoing synths in Ghouls or the frenzy of Dinosaurs would all have sounded out of place on With Love and Squalor but it works here. The lyrics still follow the formula of Boy Meets Girl, Boy Likes Girl, All Goes Wrong and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that when it's done properly.
The handful of reviews I've seen have basically said, "Not bad, but just not as much FUN as the first album." Sure, it's not as immediate as its predecessor, but how disappointing would it have been if they'd made the same album twice? And it's certainly not a poor second effort.
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