Keith Murray: Last News

We Are Scientists have announced a run of UK tour dates, set to kick off later this year. Find all dates and ticket details below.Announced today (May 24), the upcoming live shows will see the New York duo embark on eight shows across the country in celebration of their sophomore album ‘Brain Thrust Mastery’.Originally released back in 2008, the album contained hits including ‘After Hours’, ‘Chick Lit’ and ‘Impatience’, and will be celebrating its 15th anniversary this year.

We Are Scientists have announced details of new album ‘Lobes’ and a new UK and European tour – find all the details below and buy tickets here.The duo’s eighth studio album and follow-up to last year’s ‘Huffy’ LP, will come out on January 20, 2023. A first single from the album, ‘Operation Error’, was released last week.Discussing the new album, frontman Keith Murray said: “Lobes is the name of a cereal of black spheres invented by [bassist] Chris Cain (don’t ask).

We Are Scientists have shared their first new music of 2022, ‘Operator Error’.The new single is said to precede more news that is to be revealed “shortly”. The New York duo’s latest album was last year’s ‘Huffy’.Bassist Chris Cain said of the new track: “It starts with what sounds like a countdown timer for some kind of destructive alien device, but ends up being a countdown timer for one of the punchiest little pop songs on Earth.

We Are Scientists have shared their latest single ‘Handshake Agreement’ – you can hear the new song below.The track is the next preview of the duo’s upcoming new album ‘Huffy’, which is set for release on October 8 via 100% Records.‘Handshake Agreement’ takes aim at social media, with frontman Keith Murray explaining: “I could get into how, as far as I can tell, social media has reduced public conversation to this sort of dialogue, where everything is half-believed but doubly-passionate, but, let’s be honest nobody wants to hear already-obvious social theory from a guitar player.“Suffice it to say that ‘Handshake Agreement’ is my song about Twitter, and how whatever servers it’s being run on should be shot out of a cannon into the ocean, as

We Are Scientists have released a new single ‘Fault Lines’ – scroll down the page to listen to it now.The track is the band’s second new release of the year, following May single ‘I Cut My Own Hair’.“Revelling in lost time/ Stepping over fault lines/ It’d help if we could rewind/ And redraw all these fault lines,” they sing over the heavy rock riffs on the track, which “alludes to increasing polarised views and deepening divisions within society”.In a press release, frontman Keith Murray said: “Look, I’m generally reluctant to get into song meanings and lyrical analysis, under the best of circumstances.

Following the release of their new single ‘I Cut My Own Hair’ last week, We Are Scientists have now launched a line of merch for those who have attempted what the song suggests and then been less than happy with the results.