MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK
Motion City Soundtrack are
an infectious kind of band - infectious with their extreme mastering of
the pop hook. They sound awesome and linger for a little while in your
head, so you sing a line of a song, and then everyone else around you
gets Motion City Soundtrack stuck in their heads as well because they're
just that infectious.
The lyrics are a little
neurotic, a bit deep, but also blindingly honest. When a Motion City
Soundtrack song comes on, you instantly know it's Motion City
Soundtrack. There's those distinctive vocals, insane mooging,
tight drumming, funky bassing. The guitars sum it all up and pull
everything together, tiptoeing on the edge of hearing. Their sound is
constructed in a way to feature the vocals and the moog in the biggest
way possible, while never letting you forget that the rhythm is what
drives the whole band.
Motion City Soundtrack rock
so bad. They have a certain hyper energy about themselves and it’s
magnetic; you'll be drawn to them and they'll never release you.
Motion City Soundtrack
will deceive you, too. They sound so bright, when most of the time, the
subject matter isn't really happy at all. Take a closer listen sometime
- Motion City Soundtrack stretch your perceptions of what makes a pop
band. They’ll explode into your head and demolish all the other moog
pop bands who were there before they came along. You’ll find yourself
throughout the day suddenly starting to sing the hookiest parts of the
songs (let's face it – pretty much all of the song is the hook in terms
of Motion City Soundtrack). The song-writing is excellent, and is pretty
much the main focus of the music. That and those awesome hooks. They
really do screw with your mind.
When you first hear
Motion City Soundtrack, you’ll like them a lot. It’ll end with them
being your favourite band.
Motion City Soundtrack's
debut album was I Am The Movie. Recently released was their
second, Commit This To Memory, which are both available in all
good record stores.
www.myspace.com/motioncitysoundtrack
www.motioncitysoundtrack.com
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