We Are Scientists are back with their groovy, synth-laced new track, “Settled Accounts” today. The funky track arrives on the heels of 2022 releases, “Operator Error,” “Less From You,” and “Lucky Just To Be Here”, and serves as yet another teaser of the band’s upcoming eighth album, Lobes, out January 20, 2023 via Masterswan Recordings. Listen to it now below.
“It’s nice that things have come full-circle,” explains vocalist/guitarist Keith Murray. “Strident old Keith would have argued that funk was the one true musical genre. And here we are, with our funkiest tune yet.”
“When I was a younger, more brazen guy, I was incredibly steadfast in my beliefs,” he adds in regards to the meaning of the song. “Everything I liked was not just ‘enjoyable,’ but ‘categorically good,’ the people I hung out with were not just ‘fun people,’ but the ‘best gang,’ the ideas I subscribed to were not just ‘interesting,’ but ‘fundamentally correct.’ These days, I’m just way less sure about everything.”
Murray knows he can still be a “bullheaded fool” who will stridently argue that some particular genre of music (Country Pop) is “inherently dumb,” or that Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s irreverently classic sports film BASEketball is probably the “most important cinematic contribution of the 1990s,” but he confidently admits he never believes he’s actually, “objectively right” about anything anymore, adding, “The more I live, the more I experience, and the more people deliver rhetorical smack-downs on the daily, the more I just realize I don’t know anything. Anything! All of what I thought was rigorous intellectualization has kind of gotten me nowhere. I might as well just surrender and go with it.”
We Are Scientists will play their album release show at Brooklyn, NYC’s Brooklyn Made on January 20th. Tickets can be found HERE. The band will also be announcing more US dates in the coming months following the band’s UK and Europe Show Lobes Tour this Spring.