It never quite seemed fair that Motion City Soundtrack were painted with the brush of pop punk early in their career, or that their later albums were judged in that light. Certainly, ‘Commit This To Memory’ and ‘Even If It Kills Me’ were the closest the band came to straight genre records, but the seeds of growth and an individual identity were already flourishing in their debut, ‘I Am The Movie’. Ten years after their last release, ‘Panic Stations’, Motion City Soundtrack are back with an album that sounds unabashedly like themselves – catchy, melodic, and brimming with Moog.
Crucial to understanding Motion City Soundtrack’s sound, and how it has developed, is understanding where it came from. A mixture of early ‘90s indie and post hardcore – Pixies, Weezer, Fugazi, and Jawbox, to name a few. The result was a musical style that was as happy playing in a melodic meadow as it was willing to dabble in darker edges. Discovering them as a teenager in the mid-2000s was revelatory. Here…
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