- 2025-06-18
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MUSIC
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Motion City Soundtrack Announces New Album “The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World”, Shares New Song “She Is Afraid”
American rock band Motion City Soundtrack, consisting of Justin Pierre (vocals/guitar), Joshua Cain (guitar), Jesse Mack Johnson (keyboards), Matthew Taylor (bass) and Tony Thaxton (drums), has announced their upcoming seventh studio album “The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World” will be released on September 19, 2025 via Epitaph.
This marks their first album in a decade since the 2015 album “Panic Stations”.
From the album, the band released the first single called “She Is Afraid” on June 17, 2025.
The song is accompanied by the Jesse Cain-directed music video.
The track was written by Motion City Soundtrack and produced by Sean O'Keefe.
The band frontman Justin Pierre said of the song, “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) videocassette as a teenager in '90/'91. I wore that shit out.”- The new album comprises 11 tracks, featuring guest appearances from American rock band Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump, American rock band Citizen's Mat Kerekes, and American punk rock band Sincere Engineer.
The band recorded the album with producer Sean O'Keefe at the legendary Chicago studio, Electrical Audio.
The band guitarist Joshua Cain said of the album, “When we started conceptualizing the idea for this record, I was thinking about what we loved about doing this originally.”
Justin Pierre added, “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.” -
Photo by Ben Pier - source : Apple Music
