Motion City Soundtrack Announce First New Album In A Decade 'The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World'
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Ben Pier
Motion City Soundtrack have announced their first new album in a decade.
'The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World', the follow-up to 2015's 'Panic Stations', is due for release on September 19 via Epitaph Records.
Produced by Sean O’Keefe and recorded at Chicago’s legendary Electrical Audio, it boasts guest appearances from Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, Mat Kerekes of Citizen, and Deanna Belos of Sincere Engineer. Vocalist 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."
Guitarist Joshua Cain said: "When we started conceptualizing the idea for this record, I was thinking about what we loved about doing this originally. Keyboardist Jesse Johnson added: " It's a very interesting thing to feel like we made the most important record of our career this late in the game."
As a preview, the four-piece have shared the first single from the record, She Is Afraid, which serves up their familiar blend of emotive pop-rock, and comes with a video inspired by the television series Severance. Pierre commented:
"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."
Last summer, Motion City Soundtrack released the single Stop Talking, their first original material in a decade, recorded for the film Dìdi (弟弟). It doesn't appear on the tracklist for the new record.
'The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World' 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
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