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Now this is more like it rahhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
Motion City Soundtrack completely ditches the styles that were on Even If It Kills Me and puts an alt-rock twist on their unique brand of sound, and it works out for them amazingly. This one takes more queues from I Am The Movie in terms of progression and lyrics, but also expands on the themes that album and Commit This To Memory had laid out beforehand. Justin sings his ASS off on some of these tracks, which adds intensity to these harder and more ... read more

Oh yes......
Motion City Soundtrack's debut project, and it's got a lot more personal moments than the rest of their discography while having some of their catchiest and repayable songs ever (A-OK, The Future Freaks Me Out) but also having some steam be lost in the second half of the album with some songs that sound more generic than the rest. There's a lot to love, however, about the more unrefined and wild vocals and guitars that exist here, that you don't find much of on ... read more

(I realized I never wrote this review whoops lol)
What I had originally put in my Even If It Kills Me review was that it simply did not match the energy, depth of songwriting and emotion, or the composition that Commit This To Memory has. While I think that I Am The Movie is close, this still remains Motion City Soundtrack's magnum opus, especially with Justin, Mark and Patrick's fiercest vocal chops leading every song on the album, and I think this shares a spot with Green Day and ... read more

Playing it too safe for a follow-up?

Going from Commit This To Memory towards Even If It Kills Me was a little strange and underwhelming. The songwriting is noticeably weaker and tackles a lot fewer themes, and a few are retreads of the same concepts with redundant, un-memorable choruses and riffs. While some songs do have a familiar and exciting feel to them (i.e. Point of Extinction) and also work as emotional bridges (i.e. Last Night, The Conversation), the rest feel like watered down ... read more