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Minnesota pop-punk outfit Motion City Soundtrack will release their full-length album in ten years this year. Titled The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World, the record is scheduled to arrive via Epitaph Records on September 19th. Pre-orders are available now and can be secured at this link. Of the new album, frontman Justin Pierre said:
“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… 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.”
News of the album arrives with lead single “She is Afraid”. Check out the Jesse Cain-directed music video below. Speaking of the track, the singer/guitarist adds:
“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). 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.”
The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World track listing:
- “Some Wear a Dark heart”
- “She is Afraid”
- “Particle Physics” feat. Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy)
- “You Know Who the Fuck We Are”
- “Melancholia”
- “Your Days Are Numbered” feat. Mat Kerekes (Citizen)
- “Downer”
- “Mi Corazón”
- “Bloodline”
- “Things Like This” feat. Sincere Engineer
- “The Same Old wasted Wonderful World”
