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We Are Scientists: With Love and Squalor

Chelsea Mushaluk, OP Contributor

 

If there’s anything I’m a sucker for, it’s kittens. They’re tiny
and fuzzy and just so cute. On the cover, the back, and the
booklet of their debut album, With Love and Squalor, We
Are Scientists have supplied us with eight photos of the
band holding kittens.

Once I was finished cooing over the initial cuteness of
the album, I listened to it. And then it hit me: You can
only hide behind the furry adorableness of kittens for so
long, We Are Scientists. Even kittens won't disguise your
cookie-cutter dance rock, and I’m on to you, We Are
Scientists. I’m on to you.

Pop the CD into your computer and it gets all interac-

tive, with an album player, links, and the requisite band/kit-
ten photo. It also has some nifty extras, like the video for
“Nobody Move, Nobody Gets Hurt.” The premise is that
someone in a bear suit is chasing the band down the street.
Tm sure they do other things, but I didn’t finish watching

it. The video was good, but singer Keith Murray’s Diem!

Morrissey imitations got the best of me. The
format does make it easy to listen to the
album while browsing the bonus features,
though. And the website, cleverly named
“The Sci-Cave,” is pretty funny.

The album reminded me a lot of Hot
Hot Heat. Granted, Murray’s voice isn’t
nearly as annoying as Steve Bays’ is, but both
bands have definitely come from the same
School of Indiepopdancerock. And both got
an A in Skinny Ties 101.

The album did have some highlights,
though. “Can’t Lose” shows us what the
band is capable of when they focus on gui-
tar work. “Cash Cow’ is fun and danceable,
“Textbook” is another slower number, and
“What’s The Word” is totally different from
anything else on With Love and Squalor, but
that’s what makes it good.

Sometimes We Are Scientists are pop
punk, sometimes they’re indie rock, some-
times they’re indie pop, but they’re never ‘one
genre consistently. More often than not a
mix of genres works, but it sounds like
they’re still trying to figure it out. It is only
their first album, so we can cut them some
slack. But not too much, because Make Up
the Breakdown and You Could Have It So Much
Better have already been made. Funny web-
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sweater vests will only get you so far. The question is how
far will it get We Are Scientists?

Don’t get me wrong, I love kittens, but there comes a
time when you have to put them down and play some awe-
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