As you'd expect from anyone on the Epitaph label, Motion City Soundtrack are no ordinary pop band, and I Am the Movie no ordinary pop album. With their friendly, occasionally edgy rush of guitars and a keyboard that shifts between urgency and wackiness, at their best they echo the classic power pop of the Cars, and occasionally the Murder City Devils at their least fraught and frenetic. Fine examples of this are "My Favourite Accident", "Modern Chemistry" and the closing "A-OK". Just as often, though--as with "Shiver" and "The Future Freaks Me Out"--they recall the near-perfect smart pop of Fountains of Wayne. Their songs, peopled with drinkers and dreamers, dropouts and liars, are usually happily insidious (even the one about suicidal depression), unconvincing only when MCS commit the standard US punk-pop error of failing to match words and music. Towards the end of the album, this poor writing forces them into clumsiness and consequently breaks the spell. For the most part, though, their intelligence, humour and energy are gratifying enough. --Dominic Wills

Wydawca	Epitaph
Czas trwania	43 min
Ilość dysków	1

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