We Are Scientists

Let’s take We Are Scientists at their word and assume that, in addition to being musicians who have spent the past decade rocking slicked-up and sly postpunk dance, they are scientists. Considering that the band is on the American Barbarian Tour, let’s go ahead and also grant that We Are Scientists’ members really are barbarians. That is, they are scientist-barbarians. Now — stay with me here — recall the ’80s cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian, in which cosmic destruction is unleashed when a runaway planet comes between the Earth and the moon, leading to a world of savagery, super-science and sorcery. Do you see what it all means? When civilization is cast into ruin and overrun with evil wizards and rat people, you’ll wish you’d hooked up with the scientist-barbarian saviors We Are Scientists before time had run out.