We Are Scientists will release new album ‘Qualifying Miles’ on July 18th.
The American indie rock mainstays are back, with their ninth studio album. Led by old friends Keith Murray and Chris Cain, We Are Scientists have crafted an all-new 12-tracker, which lands this summer through Greenland Records.
Out on July 18th, it’s led by new single ‘Please Don’t Say It’ – Keith Murray introduces the song, and the album as a whole, by saying…
We are Scientists’ writing process these days is to just write incessantly – good songs, terrible songs, sincere songs, goofy songs, whatever. It’s a fun process, but it kind of makes it hard to stop and get to the harder work of recording the actual album.
Sometimes, it takes a song like ‘Please Don’t Say It’ to come along and get you so excited about sharing it with everyone else that you simply have no choice but to call a wrap on the writing process and immediately start making a record. We got so excited by the appearance of ‘Please Don’t Say It’ that was the last song we wrote for ‘Qualifying Miles’; weneeded it out in the world.
On the track, Keith says: “I’m always happy to spew all kinds of drama in song, just don’t make me talk about it in person, okay? “Please Don’t Say It” is, I guess, a song about being unwilling to confront my glitches anywhere but in that very song. Except, now I’m talking here about using the song to not talk about it. Weird.”
Out now alongside a fog-bound video, ‘Please Don’t Say It’ is vintage We Are Scientists. Keith continues…
“I’m always happy to spew all kinds of drama in song, just don’t make me talk about it in person, okay? “Please Don’t Say It” is, I guess, a song about being unwilling to confront my glitches anywhere but in that very song. Except, now I’m talking here about using the song to not talk about it. Weird.”
Tune in now.
Tracklist:
1. A Prelude to What
2. Starry-Eyed
3. Dead Letters
4. The Big One
5. Please Don’t Say It
6. The Same Mistake
7. What You Want Is Gone
8. A Lesson I Never Learned
9. I Could Do Much Worse
10. I Already Hate This
11. At the Mall in My Dreams
12. Promise Me
Photo Credit: Sari Murray
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