Keith Murray: We’ve written really large in a variety of songs for this album, because initially, our thinking was that I was going to come out last year and as with everything plan sort of got delayed and rearranged, so we just kept reading and kept writing, and we ended up with just a really weird variety of songs. I want a distraction from being trapped inside.”Īmerican Songwriter spoke to Murray about making more songs than usual, 20 years of We Are Scientists and falling off that bike.Īmerican Songwriter: How did Huffy start piecing together from the time of Megaplex? “I don’t want to hear other people be insular and depressive.
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“The phenomenon that has recently begun in full force of people releasing the albums they made in quarantine that are very quiet and introspective, is the opposite of what I want right now,” says Murray. Hanging on catchy hooks and some necessary banter, Huffy is the perfect tincture for dealing with real-life, from “You’ve Lost Your Shit,” and that moment when avoiding confrontation comes to an explosive head through the high-fired infatuation of “Contact High” and the swagger of “Handshake Agreement.” Cascading over the rousing rock of “I Cut My Own Hair,” “Sentimental Education,” and “Pandemonium,” Huffy amuses even touching on the more glum theme of the countrified “Bought Myself a Grave.” We Are Scientists initially had an album in the works for a 2020 release but when everything was put on hold around the pandemic they revisited their songs, rearranged a few things, and rode with Huffy (100% Records).įor the duo, of singer and guitarist Keith Murray and bassist Chris Cain, along with drummer Keith Carne, Huffy, the band’s seventh album and follow up to Megaplex in 2018, taps on nostalgia-the childhood bikes, and namesake of the album, that peaked in popularity during the ‘80s-and better days, now.