Motion City Soundtrack - Even If It Kills Me [Clean]

Primary Artist
Motion City Soundtrack
Album Title
Even If It Kills Me [Clean]
Release Date
September 18, 2007 
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Review by Andrew Leahey
With punk-pop stalwarts Blink-182 now out of the running, Motion City Soundtrack could very well be crowned the genre's new torchbearers. Theirs is a punk-pop untainted by emo, unfazed by hardcore, and firmly focused on the latter element -- pop -- which seems to be second language to this melody-driven quintet. To that end, Even If It Kills Me finds the band working with (among others) Cars co-founder and veteran knob-twiddler Ric Ocasek, who piles their harmonies and distorted guitars into crunchy blocks of radio gold. Read More