A successful debut is often followed by 'a difficult second album', is the cliché in music journalism. We Are Scientists from New York got off to a flying start with their 2006 debut With Love And Squalor. The band proved particularly popular in England. Despite this, drummer Michael Tapper left and the two remaining band members shaved off their signature mustaches. The group has now adopted a
… dandy-like image that recalls Bryan Ferry and David Bowie (in the eighties). Musically the group was also inspired by both gentlemen, which pushes the angular Strokes-meets-Interpol indie rock of the debut to the background. It is to their credit that they do not want to walk the same path as the majority of today's British indie bands. The disadvantage is that this second album sounds a bit rudderless. Highlights are the single After Hours, the glam rock rammer Impatience and the old-fashioned (because it would have been appropriate for the debut) Let's See It. (PdK)more
