Motion City Soundtrack announce first album in a decade, The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World

“As soon as I heard Josh’s bonkers guitar part, I flipped out. I don’t know how he does it. I’d been listening to a lot of Del the Funky Homosapien around the time of writing the lyrics, and I think his influence comes out a bit in the verses (but hopefully in a way that doesn’t sound totally derivative),“ says frontman Justin Pierre.

“I think the rest of the tune owes a debt of gratitude to That Dog for sure. Matt mentioned he hears some Faith No More in the tune, which is always a good sign, and now I hear it too. Hell, I learned how to be weird on stage watching Mike Patton on the You Fat Bastards (Live At The Britton Academy London) video cassette as a teenager in ‘90/‘91. I wore that shit out.”

After taking a three year hiatus, the band — vocalist/guitarist Justin Pierre, guitarist Joshua Cain, bassist Matt Taylor, keyboardist Jesse Johnson and drummer Tony Thaxton —started performing live again in 2019, but even the most optimistic fans didn’t necessarily expect a follow-up to 2015’s Panic Stations. “When we started conceptualizing the idea for this record, I was thinking about what we loved about doing this originally,” Cain explains.

“I think that if you look at a lot of our past records, it’s about ‘What’s wrong? What am I not getting right? Why do I feel fucking crazy? Why can’t I figure this out’… and I figured it out,” Pierre admits. “It’s almost like I felt I didn’t have an identity [in the past] and now by working through the hard stuff, I know who I am.”

Tracklist:

1. Some Wear a Dark Heart
2. She Is Afraid
3. Particle Physics (feat. Patrick Stump)
4. You Know Who the Fuck We Are
5. Melancholia
6. Your Days Are Numbered (feat. Mat Kerekes)
7. Downer
8. Mi Corazón
9. Bloodline
10. Things Like This (feat. Sincere Engineer)
11. The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World