With Love and Squalor

With Love and Squalor
Studio album by We Are Scientists
Released January 10, 2006
February 5, 2006
February 22, 2006
February 27, 2005
March 4, 2006
Recorded Spring 2005
Genre Indie rock
Post-punk revival
Length 36:55
Label Virgin (UK, US)
Producer Ariel Rechtshaid
We Are Scientists chronology
Safety, Fun, and Learning (In That Order)
(2002)
With Love and Squalor
(2005)
Crap Attack
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Blender [2]
Drowned in Sound (8/10) [3]
NME (7/10) [4]
Pitchfork Media (6.7/10) [5]
PopMatters (7/10) [6]
Rolling Stone [7]

With Love and Squalor is the major label debut album from rock band We Are Scientists. It was released in the United Kingdom in 2005 on Virgin Records and charted at #43, with a large cult following which enabled it to, after nearly 6 months of release, gain a Gold certification by the BPI in 2006. The album sold an average of 4,166 copies each week before it got the certification. The album title is derived from a J.D. Salinger short story, "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor", which was originally published in The New Yorker and subsequently published in Nine Stories, a compilation of Salinger's short stories.

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt"   3:12
2. "This Scene Is Dead"   3:43
3. "Inaction"   2:32
4. "Can't Lose"   3:31
5. "Callbacks"   2:02
6. "Cash Cow"   2:35
7. "It's A Hit"   3:26
8. "The Great Escape"   3:18
9. "Textbook"   4:01
10. "Lousy Reputation"   2:35
11. "Worth The Wait"   2:43
12. "What's The Word"   3:17
Total length:
36:55

The two songs on the 12" vinyl edition were both later released on Crap Attack. These songs were also featured on a 3 song CD that was available for purchase during their tour with Hot Hot Heat.

Notes

Track No. 1, "Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt", was featured in the CSI: NY episode "Stuck on You", which aired on February 1, 2006, as well as in Season 1 episode 9 of the American Sitcom, "How I Met Your Mother".

Track No. 3, "Inaction", was featured in an episode of "The OC".

Track No. 5, "Callbacks", was featured in the soundtrack of the video game "True Crime: New York City".

Track No. 6 "Cash Cow" is featured in the online flash game Flash Flash Revolution.

Track No. 7 "It's A Hit" is featured in the Series 2 premiere of the sitcom "The Inbetweeners".

Track No. 8, "The Great Escape", was featured on the soundtrack of the video games "Burnout Revenge", "Burnout Legends" and Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage.

Track No. 10, "Lousy Reputation", was featured on the soundtrack of the video game "SSX on Tour".

References