We Are Scientists shocked themselves and impressed many others with their 2005 debut With Love & Squalor. On the strength of dancefloor standbys "Nobody Move", "Nobody Get Hurt"; "It's A Hit"; and "The Great Escape" (as well as nine other songs that, to all<br />appearances, people also liked) the album sold over 150,000 copies in the UK and<br />earned them praise from fans and critics back home in the US as well.<br />The band spent 2007 at weight-loss camps, alcoholics' dry-out facilities, and a race car<br />school, yet has also found time to pen, record, and road-test their sophomore offering,<br />Brain Thrust Mastery. If W.A.S.'s first album had been far, far better than it was, and of a<br />far more mature style, and if they had then released a limp, unenjoyable second record,<br />and if Brain Thrust Mastery were actually their third album, it would be hailed as 'a return<br />to form', as 'equal to -- in many ways an improvement upon -- the monumental debut'.<br />We Are Scientists began, in spirit, at Pomona College, in Claremont, California, in the Fall<br />of 1997, when Keith Murray and Chris Cain met at a viewing of Dawson's Creek held in<br />the latter's dorm room. Though at the time they couldn't suspect any of the details of the<br />coming decade, it was apparent to both of them that they would spend many long<br />years riding buses together -- some kind of pro-sports, they assumed. In 1999, freshly<br />graduated and moved to Berkeley, CA, the two started We Are Scientists with little more<br />between them than a dream, a couple of cut-rate instruments, and $1.4 million in lottery<br />winnings.<br />Nine years later, the band has long-since relocated to more fashionable New York City,<br />seen many countries their parents swore to them were 'myth, accursed myth', and finally<br />dated girls. In the Fall of '07, long-time drummer Michael Tapper retired from the band,<br />and We Are Scientists added a new drummer, plus, in a fit of accumulation, a fourth man<br />on-stage. Keith and Chris also began giving inspirational lectures at universities across the<br />UK during their hitherto unencumbered afternoons. 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