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…that We Are Scientists are the new Rubinoos until I just played the last track on their new album!

The bass, the vocalists singing the melody parallelly in two octaves, the guitar fills, the rich background vocals - it’s pretty similar. Not similar as in "Girlfriend" vs. "Boyfriend" mind you, but the Rubinoos-style is definitely recognizable.

The track in question, "That’s What Counts", is softer than anything else We Are Scientists have ever recorded, at least to my knowledge, and that’s probably why the Rubinoos suddenly came to mind. But once I made the connection, I see quite a lot of similarities between the sound of the two bands.

The tracks are available for streaming here: "That’s What Counts" by We Are Scientists and "The Magic’s Back" by The Rubinoos. And, I may add, I do like the new We Are Scientists album. It’s more diverse than the first, but it still has plenty of punch. It’s called "Brain Thrust Mastery" and was released in March 2008 on Virgin.

If you’re reading this a few weeks from now the tracks are probably gone. Sorry.