We Are Scientists share new single ‘Contact High’

We Are Scientists press photo
Photo credit: Danny Lee Allan

We Are Scientists have returned to announce their first album in three years, and a blistering new single Contact High. The track is lifted from the new album ‘Huffy’ which will be out on October 8, 2021. You can check out the video clip for Contact High via YouTube below or listen here: http://100percent.it/ContactHigh

The band have revealed the secret ingredients of the lead single’s winning formula…

“Love songs can easily be goofy and embarrassing, and so I sometimes have a hard time writing songs that are unambiguously romantic”, states singer and guitarist Keith Murray, before adding that, “Contact High really nails that heady rush of full-throttle infatuation for me, though, because it evokes my trifecta of mood-altering stimuli — dizzying romantic interaction, rousing music, and second-hand contact with psychoactive chemicals (in descending order of personal preference).”

Drawing as much from the angular guitar-driven sounds of their debut as it does from the finest in modern rock today, Contact High is raising the bar for the decade ahead. Celebrating the song’s potent delivery and unashamed lyrical sentiment, Murray concludes… “it’s just nice to have a song that’s unapologetically sappy, but couched in distorted guitar and metaphors of coincidental intoxication.”

With this single the New Yorkers finally announce the new record, ‘Huffy,’ which follows 2018’s ‘Megaplex’ and the enormously successful “50th anniversary” reissue of ‘With Love And Squalor’. The anticipated album is already shaping up to be one of the band’s most hit-tastic albums to date with the inclusion of recently acclaimed bangers I Cut My Own Hair and Fault Lines alongside today’s new single Contact High.

We Are Scientists Huffy vinyl animated gif
‘Huffy’ customizable artwork 

The fresh music in ‘Huffy’ is accompanied by an oh-so-fresh presentation: multi-paneled vinyl and CD packaging offer a blank wall on which listeners can unfold their own unreasonable vision for the ‘Huffy’ universe. Each includes sticker sheets with over 20 full colour graffiti designed by Keith, Chris, and friends, deployable according to the user’s whim. Tilting reality even further into the hallucinatory gyre, this vinyl comes in a choice of ten colours. (The cassettes will be manufactured in a paltry five colours, but while each has ‘Huffy’ on Side A, five different Side B’s give hard plastic-enthusiasts something to crow about.)

On mosaic form of ‘Huffy’, Chris says, “Usually people bring a vinyl record home, rip it to their iPods, and throw it straight into the fire. Well, not with Huffy. We’re giving our listeners a reason to keep this one around, and even to consider passing it down to future generations, if they’re super-happy with where they put all the stickers.”

We Are Scientists Huffy cover artwork

Huffy’ track list
 1 – You’ve Lost Your Shit
2 – Contact High
3 – Handshake Agreement
4 – I Cut My Own Hair
5 – Just Education
6 – Sentimental Education
7 – Fault Lines
8 – Pandemonium
9 – Bought Myself A Grave
10 – Behavior Unbecoming

‘Huffy’ is out October 8th via Masterswan Records. Go ahead and pre-order the album here in any which way you prefer (LP/CD/Cassette/Digital), then get ready make your very own one-of-a-kind piece of musical art.

Tickets are on sale now for their first live show back, performing a special one-off hometown set at Brooklyn Elsewhere Rooftop on August 10, 2021. Tickets are available here.

We Are Scientists live poster

For more information on We Are Scientists, visit wearescientists.com.

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