Megaplex (album)

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Megaplex received an average score of 65, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 7 reviews.[2] Steven Loftin of The Line of Best Fit gave Megaplex a rating of 7.5/10, declaring that "We Are Scientists have been back in the lab and are continuing to push themselves outside of their own boundaries" and particularly highlighting the album's use of electronic sounds and the album's "emotive life force".[3] At The Skinny, George Scully rated the album three stars out of five, saying that "party gun cocked and loaded, New York pop-rock armoury We Are Scientists fire a shiny pop bullet with Megaplex, the band’s sixth album and a self-proclaimed "stacked-up compound of entertainment."[4] Writing for PopMatters, Chris Conaton gave Megaplex six stars out of ten, remarking that "after a half-dozen albums, We Are Scientists are far from running out of hooks, but these days they seem to deploy those hooks better when they are stretching themselves."[1]

The deluxe edition of Megaplex was released on April 19, 2019, it features fourteen additional tracks and is named for the 2009 American action horror film Underworld: Rise of the Lycans.[8] The additional tracks comprise three full band bonus tracks, four acoustic songs, five demos, and one remix.[8]