We Are Scientists - Qualifying Miles (Deluxe Edition) (2026) [Hi-Res]

We Are Scientists continue their collaboration with Grönland Records with the release of a deluxe edition of their ninth studio album Qualifying Miles. Following the album’s successful launch, this expanded version further highlights the band’s ongoing momentum and growing international audience.
The deluxe edition features a rich collection of additional material, including five acoustic versions, seven live recordings, and one previously unreleased track, offering fans a deeper and more intimate look into the band’s work.

The album finds Murray and Cain embracing a stripped-down, "band in a room" aesthetic that harkens back to the music that shaped their childhoods. Murray explains. "The crop songs we wrote for Qualifying Miles covered a huge range of genres, but somehow the songs that resonated them most with us all shared this vaguely 90s guitar rock sensibility.”

Despite not setting out with a thematic framework, Murray discovered a common thread running through the new material: "It wasn't until we'd chosen them and I started doing some lyrical touchups that I realized a lot these songs hit upon similar themes: wistfulness for the past, a sort of melancholy nostalgia, that kind of thing.”