We Are Scientists share punchy new single ‘Operator Error’
nme.comWe 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.
So the usual first-listen reaction is joy mixed with quite a bit of relief.”“I have a tendency to deliver hot takes and to get extraordinarily overheated about utterly inconsequential things,” singer and guitarist Keith Murray said of the song, which nods to his “big mouth”.Murray continued: “I got into a multi-hour argument over whether Top Gun: Maverick is a halfway decent movie.
Maybe it’s weird, then, that I also tend to be pretty sanguine over big issues. It’s fairly hard to drag me into a heated fight, or to get me to say something that I’ll later come to regret.“On important matters, I like to keep quiet, to listen to everyone else’s take, and to silently build my own bullet-proof argument, which nobody else will ever hear.
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