We Are Scientists by Dan Monick
We Are Scientists will embark on a UK tour next year.
We Are Scientists have quickly followed up the release of their Operator Error single with the news of a brand new album entitled Lobes.
As ever with the duo, there’s a backstory worth telling to the otherwise seemingly innocuous title – as Keith Murray explains:
“Lobes is the name of a cereal of black spheres invented by Chris Cain (don’t ask). Obviously, the record has little to do with breakfast, but I loved the associations that the word has with cerebral biology, and the evocation of sci-fi, and a sense of something both fundamentally human and utterly unknowable.”
“The word ‘lobes’ makes me think of the body horror films of David Cronenberg, but also of the chatty comedies of manners of Whit Stillman.”
“I really love the reaction it evokes in people: everybody knows the word ‘lobes’, but for whatever reason, being challenged to define it consistently scares them, or angers them, or makes them laugh, or makes them tell me to shut up. What a great reaction to such a benign word. It’s also pretty fun to say. Lobes.”
It’ll be out on January 20th next year.
