Brooklyn’s indie rock favorites We Are Scientists today share “What You Want Is Gone,” the third single from their upcoming album Qualifying Miles, out July 18 via Groenland Records. The band has also announced today that their album release show will be at Brooklyn’s Union Pool (484 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211) on July 30th. Tickets can be purchased HERE.
Built around a melancholic and cascading lead guitar riff that loops and evolves, the track moves between soft restraint and big climaxes. There’s a nod to 2000s indie ballads while singer and guitarist Keith Murray’s vocals are direct and open, carrying a sense of hope and regret in the track’s repeating lyric: “You can’t just wait around for what you want / if what you want is gone.”
On the track, Keith says: “I spent a lot of my early songwriting career celebrating the benefits of total passivity. A bunch of songs off of our first album, like ‘Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt,’ ‘The Great Escape,’ and ‘Inaction,’ are essentially manifestos on my overarching emotional philosophy back then, which was basically that, in life, it wasn’t really the destination or the journey, but rather the tension just before the journey begins that was most delicious. Well, it only took me like 20 years to realize that young Keith was kind of an idiot. I mean, I guess I did know that then, too. but I was simply more willing to indulge that idiocy. Plus, I was drinking with Chris Cain [bassist] at Lit Lounge in Manhattan like six nights a week, so my decision-making skills were low. I’m still a coward, yes, and I’m still fairly risk-averse, but I now at least believe that shooting your shot while you’ve still got the chance is a laudatory move. I probably should’ve been listening to more self-help podcasts, all this time.”
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Rey Roldan
