NYC trio WE ARE SCIENTISTS' previous single "Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt" introduced another bunch of fully paid up, card-carrying members of the Funk-Punk saturation society who are still inflicting Kim Philby-style sabotage on the wider music scene.
Reading it again, thet probably sounds like a slight, but it's actually meant in terms of admiration, because - while they would certainly name the likes of Radio 4, Stellastarr* and French Kicks among their immediate stylistic brethren - WAS come striding proudly out of their lab safe in the knowledge that their sonic vivisection has produced some thrilling results.
Because "The Great Escape" is one neat'n'powerful single. It's tight, taut, direct and exciting and comes barrelling out of the speakers like the most glorious hybrid of (prepare to cut your long-suffering reviewer some slack) Spoon, The Futureheads and the aforementioned NYC stable. It pulls off the quite remarkable trick of sounding wired, angular AND fresh all at once and when singer Keith Murray screams "How am I doin' ?" as he slams into the chorus, one can only give an enthusiastic thumbs up and succumb.
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Of course, only a terminal berk would ever take his eye of the NYC ball indefinitely anyway, but We Are Scientists' intuitive skill and intelligence with fiery rock'n'roll suggests their ongoing research is - for once - rightly being backed by a big corporation.
We await their album-sized dossier with bated breath.
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