# WE ARE SCIENTISTS Hope For The Best, And Expect Nothing “Less From You”

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- Published: 2022-10-31T12:00:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

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[[**Hope For The Best, And Expect Nothing
“[Less From You](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=b140c9b49b&e=615f2b8493)”

**New Album **_**Lobes**_** Out January 20 via Masterswan Recordings**

[**FREE rooftop show for the launch of BrewDog’s largest bar in the World in Las Vegas on December 3rd**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=2cd9271393&e=615f2b8493)

[**Album Release Show at NYC’s Brooklyn Made on January 20th**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=af78104927&e=615f2b8493)

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**WE ARE SCIENTISTS **
**Photo credit**: Dan Monick

**OCTOBER 28, 2022 (NEW YORK, NY) — **“There was definitely a period in my life 
when I thought being jaded was cool,” says **We Are Scientists **vocalist/guitarist**
Keith Murray** about the band’s upbeat, synth-driven, indie dance track “[**Less From You**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=f1152302ff&e=615f2b8493),”
taken from the band’s eighth official studio album** **_**Lobes**_** **(release 
date: **January 20, 2023** _via _**Masterswan Recordings**). Having had his pessimism
proven wrong so many times in life about “so many things – friendship, love, an 
unexpectedly great Mai Tai in the basement of a British hotel,” Murray says it’s
been impossible to “really maintain that full-throttle cynical outlook into adulthood.
Sure, whittling down my pessimism has meant that I don’t get to enjoy the peculiar
pleasure of having my own rotten expectations subverted quite as often, but ‘Less
From You’ celebrates the greater delight of having my already-high hopes exceeded.”
Bassist **Chris Cain** says that he really wanted the bass part of this song to 
be performed on their Moog Voyager — “a nice thick synth bass felt like a great 
way to add some sleaze to the party, but in the end, a blend of Moog and bass guitar
sounded best.” He jokingly adds that makes him worried he’ll “_actually_ have to
play this bass part at live shows instead of taking a dance break.”

Speaking of performing live, last week the band announced two upcoming U.S. shows:
the first being a **free** rooftop show on **December 3rd **in **Las Vegas** at 
the launch of **BrewDog**’s largest bar in the World and the second is on **January
20th** in **Brooklyn, NYC ** at **Brooklyn Made** for the band’s _Lobes_ album release.
These shows arrive right before the band heads to the UK and Europe on the _Show
Lobes Tour_, with more US dates to be announced in the coming months.

**LISTEN/PURCHASE: “Less From You” **
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Written immediately after they finished post-production on their 2021 album _**Huffy**_,“
Less From You” arrives hot on the heels of their fresh new indie pop hit “[**Operator Error**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=cba6937995&e=615f2b8493)”_****_(
which they recorded in their Midtown Manhattan studio in the midst of the Covid 
lockdowns)._ _“We were so psyched to finish _Huffy_ after having given ourselves
this formidable challenge of self-producing it and were fairly exultant with the
end result,” Murray says, pointing out that the Covid lockdown prompted them to 
record it on their own in their Midtown Manhattan studio. “That euphoria gave us
a burst of further enthusiasm that colored the songs we wrote after that that we
turned into _Lobes_.” It also didn’t hurt that the later songs on the album were
written when both members left Manhattan – Murray was living on Miami Beach for 
a year, “vibing really hard on that tropical scene” and Cain to Utah for a few months.“
That change of scenery gave both of us a chance to clear our heads and get a little
distance from what we’d been doing,” he says.

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**Brooklyn Made Show Poster**

The lyrics for _Lobes_ were written over a stretch of two to three years. Though
the origins of the first songs began around the same time as _Huffy_, they exist
in entirely different musical universes. _Lobes_ is expected to see the lovable 
and dynamic duo at their most playful and creatively free, continuing to expand 
upon the band’s feel-good indie rock sound by exploring more of their own input 
on production. 

Murray says the album’s lead single “Operator Error” is the song that bridges _Lobes_
with _Huffy. “_We consider _Huffy _our daytime record – it’s an upbeat rock album
designed to soundtrack jetski rides to the Bahamas and piña colada in aquamarine-
tiled jacuzzis. Our new album, _Lobes, _however, is our nighttime album. As the 
first song on the record, ‘Operator Error’ soundtracks that moment when you realize
that all of those tiki cocktails you started drinking at 11:00am are going to give
you a wicked hangover by sunset, and so your best bet is to just keep the party 
going, consequences be damned! _Lobes _is, overall, more electronic, dancier, more
ominous, and way sexier than _Huffy;_ ‘Operator Error’ kicks the door open into 
that seamy underworld.”  

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[[**_Lobes _Tracklist**

1. “[Operator Error](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=5308705958&e=615f2b8493)“

2. “Dispense With Sentiment”3. “Human Resources”4. “Lucky Just To Be Here”5. “Turn
It Up”6. “Settled Accounts”7. “Here Goes”8. “Parachute”9. “[Less From You](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=3b4a99123e&e=615f2b8493)“
10. “Miracle of ’22”  

_**Lobes**_ by** We Are Scientists **is due out** January 20, 2023 **_via_** **Masterswan
Recordings.** **“[**Less From You**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=f709d09505&e=615f2b8493)**“**
is out now on all DSPs._ _The album is available to [pre order](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=f549a6748d&e=615f2b8493)
from the band’s webstore, including on Limited Edition “Black Lobe in a Cathode 
Blue Bath” LP.  

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