album review: motion city soundtrack

So, it's not 2005 anymore and the emo-on-the-radio craze is over and most of the bands have found that their music isn't the easiest to grow with--still singing about losing your virginity is really weird if you're 30. The mammoth of the movement was Fall Out Boy and after their hiatus it seemed like radio-emo was finally a thing of the past.

Motion City Soundtrack, grouped in with Panic(!) At The Disco and the like, never really fit the mold and have done their best to grow past their black-hoodie-Hot-Topic phase and My Dinosaur Life is a really good step. They're two albums now from their nerdy, synth-covered Commit This To Memory but with the help of Blink-182's Mark Hoppus as producer they're closest to their A-game they've been in a while.

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MP3:"She Destroyed My Planet" - My Dinosaur Life
Motion City Soundtrack on Myspace