Product Description

'Brain Thrust Mastery' is the second major-label album fromAmerican alt.rockers We Are Scientists. A thrilling album of upfront indie rock classics, sprinkled with a wry sense ofhumour, this record is sure to cement the band's reputationas one of the most exciting acts around. Includes the single 'After Hours'.

Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #522 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

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

Customer Reviews

No dissapointment
A very pleasing follow-up to their first album. This is the album that The Killers should have been making, but were too overly-hyped to keep to what the do best.

If you haven't listened to "with love and squalor" buy that too, just the best band around at the moment.

Top Notch Album
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
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.