Sure, We Are Scientists want you to dance, albeit in a school-function kind of way (the band often covers "Be My Baby" live); they also share the adolescent fixations/frustrations of '90s punk. But it's more accurate to say they're the kingpins of the likably square subgenre launched by Weezer's "Buddy Holly" video that never actually existed. Not emo, exactly—something more respectful toward women, even if it puts women on the same pedestal. Robert Christgau once termed Thunderbirds Are Now! makers of "high-anxiety pop," and you could call it that: WAS singer Keith Murray (the pretty one) always sounds like he's on the edge of total endocrinal implosion, a fun trait when his band was a power trio filtering disco through... More >>>