We Are Scientists: Crap Attack
Man, the UK gets fucking everything. All the exciting buzz bands, all the excellent single releases, all the enthralling accents, and when the US finally produces a herky-jerky guitar-rock band to get excited about, the UK steals them away from us too. Apparently, said herky-jerky guitar-rock band enjoys rubbing it in my face, lavisihing the UK with single releases and tour dates and now this: We Are Scientists have announced a UK-only CD/DVD of rarities and music videos, titled Crap Attack, slated for release November 6th. The CD culls b-sides from the band’s various single releases and features two new remixes and even two covers, of Sigur Ros’ “Hoppipolla” and Art Brut’s “Bang Bang Rock & Roll”, the former of which was only previously available as a live recording from one of the band’s BBC Radio sessions. Its DVD counterpart features music videos for all twelve songs on With Love & Squalor as well as live footage from the band’s April 13th Shepherd’s Bush Empire show, so between the two you’re getting quite a bargain it seems. If you’re in the UK, that is. The band’s got a real gift for words, so I’ll let them take it from here:
Behold Crap Attack, our most unedited expulsion to date. With 15 tracks on the CD, 12 videos and a full live show on the DVD, and emotional, semi-factual liner notes, and a standard plastic case that all that stuff goes in — this is truly a voluminous ejection.
The CD contains:
- Ram It Home
- Surprise
- The Great Escape (The Silence Remix)
- Mucho Mas
- Callbacks Under The Sea
- Hoppipolla
- Bang Bang Rock & Roll
- Nobody Move Under The Sea
- Sie hat Was vermisst
- Be My Baby
- This Scene Is Dead (Pete Predictable Remix)
- History Repeats
- This Means War
- The Great Escape (Under The Sea)
- Textbook (Under The Sea)
Whereas the DVD has only got:
- Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt directed by Akiva Schaffer
- This Scene Is Dead directed by Mathieu Shrontz
- Inaction directed by Eric Gross
- Can’t Lose directed by Graham Rich
- Callbacks directed by Akiva Schaffer
- Cash Cow directed by Keith Murray with Christian Owens
- It’s A Hit directed by Akiva Schaffer
- The Great Escape directed by Akiva Schaffer
- Textbook directed by Randy Bell & Justin Rice
- Lousy Reputation directed by Justin Rice & Randy Bell
- Worth the Wait directed by Mathieu Shrontz
- What’s the Word directed by Agnes Chu
- It’s A Hit (alternate version) directed by Mathieu Shrontz
- Shepherds Bush Empire show, April 13, 2006, with full commentary
I won’t stiff you on the mp3s, so below is the brand new studio version of “Hoppipolla” as well as the CD’s two serviceable remixes, for “The Great Escape” and “This Scene Is Dead”. “Hoppipolla” is the highlight here, as it’s awesome to hear it performed on an acoustic guitar and Keith actually does an a pretty serviceable job of recreating Jonsi’s unparalleled vocals. Who knew that falsetto even existed? Furthermore, dude even nailed the lyrics, an unbelievably impressive accomplishment, as memorizing lyrics in a language as ridiculous as Icelandic is surely no easy task. Downloads, ahoy:
MP3: “Hoppipolla” - We Are Scientists
MP3: “The Great Escape (The Silence Mix)” - We Are Scientists
MP3: “This Scene Is Dead (Pete Predicatble Remix)” - We Are Scientists