Motion City Soundtrack, the longtime Minneapolis-based emo and pop-punk band led by Justin Pierre, have introduced their first new album in a decade. The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World is their seventh studio album, and it’s due out September 17 through Epitaph. Take a look at the lead single “She Is Afraid,” and its Severance-inspired music video, under.
Recorded with Sean O’Keefe at Chicago’s Electrical Audio, The Identical Outdated Wasted Fantastic World spans 11 tracks and options visitor appearances by Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump, Citizen’s Mat Kerekes, and Honest Engineer’s Deanna Belos. Technically, “She Is Afraid” isn’t Movement Metropolis Soundtrack’s first new music since reuniting; final yr, the band contributed the unique quantity “Stop Talking” to the coming-of-age film Didi.
Barely a yr after their final album, 2015’s Panic Stations, Movement Metropolis Soundtrack broke up, with numerous members relocating to completely different states and Pierre pursuing a solo profession. The total band–Pierre, guitarist Joshua Cain, bassist Matt Taylor, keyboardist Jesse Johnson, and drummer Tony Thaxton—reunited on New Yr’s Eve 2019, and snuck in a correct tour firstly of 2020 earlier than the pandemic struck. That’s when Movement Metropolis Soundtrack began conceptualizing the thought for this new album.
“I feel that if you happen to take a look at plenty of our previous information, it’s about ‘What’s improper? What am I not getting proper? Why do I really feel fucking loopy? Why can’t I determine this out’… and I figured it out,” Pierre mentioned in an announcement. “It’s virtually like I felt I didn’t have an identification [in the past] and now by working by means of the arduous stuff, I do know who I’m.”
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The Identical Outdated Wasted Fantastic World:
01 Some Put on a Darkish Coronary heart
02 She Is Afraid
03 Particle Physics [ft. Patrick Stump]
04 You Know Who the Fuck We Are
05 Melancholia
06 Your Days Are Numbered [ft. Mat Kerekes]
07 Downer
08 Mi Corazón
09 Bloodline
10 Issues Like This [ft. Sincere Engineer]
11 The Identical Outdated Wasted Fantastic World
