Review:
'WE ARE SCIENTISTS'
'NOBODY MOVE, NOBODY GET HURT'
- Label: 'VIRGIN'
- Genre: 'Punk/New Wave'
- Release Date: '27TH JUNE 2005'- Catalogue No: 'VUSCD303'
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New York trio WE ARE SCIENTISTS are the latest “highly anticipated” US band hoping to blaze a trail in the UK from the fiery shards of 80’s post punk. By now even your granny must know the musical reference points, probably as adept in espousing the many virtues of Gang of Four and the whole thrilling concept of putting the Funk into Punk as she is at baking cakes and darning socks.
On ‘Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt’ the band leave the laboratory having managed to isolate the pop music in the agit-funk of Radio 4 and punk of Yeah, Yeah Yeahs and then chemically enhanced it with the mainstream flourishes of The Bravery and The Killers. As clinically engineered as that may seem it’s to the band’s credit that they’ve emerged with such a breathless and spontaneous sounding song. ‘Nobody Move..’ fairly gallops along with such an urgency and – crucially – genuine “balls to the wall” playing (particularly from drummer Michael Tapper) that grumbles about raking over old coals are rendered virtually redundant. B-side ‘Mucho Mas’ also intrigues: kind of like early U2 (or even – god forbid – The Alarm) reinterpreting the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s for stadium consumption.
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author: Different Drum
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