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Believe it or not, autumn has crept into Los Angeles. Every summer record takes its place on the shelf, and the wandering listener scavenges.  What exactly does a fall  record sound like, you ask? Well, although it is significantly cooler and there was a thunderstorm last week, LA is still deprived of that cool chill in the late afternoon just before the sun sets–the kind that makes a Los Angelino snuggle into a fashionable scarf with a good pumpkin spice latte. Luckily. We Are Scientists’ Andy Burrows is releasing his new record, Company in just a few short days. And let me tell you, I’m about 30 degrees cooler already.

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I’ve listened to all sorts of songs about “great escapes,” from We Are Scientist’s to Boys Like Girls (I know, that’s something I probably shouldn’t have admitted). Between them both, their high-energy sounds articulate that adrenaline that surges through the body during fight-or-flight response; there is an immediacy to flee from the troubles of monotonous routines and thoughts. But yet, when I turned the volume up on The Commuters debut album, Rescue, it was like an old friend sat me down in desperation, dropped to their knees, and pleaded with wet eyes asking me to help them disappear from people’s timelines to “feel more alive.” Ironically, time slowed, and I had the opportunity to pack my thoughts and run properly, leaving only what I wanted to behind.

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Check out Ashley Jean’s exchanged words with Mr. Cain of We Are Scientists…Twitter, Indie and reality…

A s a fat kid, any term that reminds me of those dreaded days in middle school P.E. render me helpless. Thank someone Modern Athletics’ sound is good enough to make those bad thoughts bury themselves in the back of my mind. Modern Athletics’ Give Us A Shove mature progressions and thought out lyrics made me believe they couldn’t possibly be American and were from the UK, nope, not at all. This quartet hails from Seattle, a city known more for grunge than Indie hipster tunes. “After the Calvary” will remind listeners of another indie rock band, We Are Scientists because of the ear catching vocals while “Crashed My Mech” is something you’d likely hear on a local college station because it’s catchy, but not too catchy that you’ll mistake it for Justin Bieber’s latest (and greatest).  Fans of The Futureheads and Mystery Jets will want to take a second, hell, give them more than that…and check out Modern Athletics’ Give Us A Shove.

Reviewed by Kendra Rae