Matchbook Romance / Motion City Soundtrack - EP
Matchbook Romance & Motion City Soundtrack
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
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In Transit (For You) | Matchbook Romance | 5:24 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Playing for Keeps | Matchbook Romance | 4:09 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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"When 'You're' Around' | Motion City Soundtrack | 3:04 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Sunday Warning | Motion City Soundtrack | 3:46 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 4 Songs |
Album Review
This split features two of Epitaph's brightest young things, Matchbook Romance and Motion City Soundtrack. Both contribute new songs as well as acoustic/otherwise messed-with versions of older tracks. Matchbook's "In Transit (Over You)" is an atmospheric Radiohead-ish number that eventually trades its acoustic meander for a full-on rock howl. It's a pretty nice song, but Andrew Jordan wins the award for vocal over-emoting. The seat-of-the-pants production ("Recorded and mixed...in 45 minutes," according to the liner notes) works well on "Playing for Keeps," as a band like Matchbook Romance usually favors a lush, overdone studio sound. Motion City Soundtrack performs the new "When 'You're' Around" acoustically here, but it will likely appear on their upcoming full-length in a rockier version. The version of "Sunday Warning" appearing here also benefits from its rough mix. All in all, not a bad little release for fans of these groups; neophytes will be teased for the upcoming releases.
Customer Reviews
Pretty Awesome
Both Motion City Soundtrack and Matchbook Romance are great bands, and when they join to make a split album, it's a great album! It's cool to hear "When 'You're' Around" in Acoustic. Not so sure about Sunday Warning, but hey, it's MCS. The MR songs are okay, I like "Playing for Keeps" better than the other. All in all, it's a good attempt. 5 Stars for Effort, or something like that...
rocknalternative loverr
i lovee this albumm. i think that matchbook and motion city are a good pair :] just wish they had more songs on here
Good But Not Great
I love Matchbook Romance, and I can tolerate Motion City Soundtrack, that said. I am glad matchbook did one new song and one old song, to give glimpses of where the band was going without isolating old listeners
Biography
Formed: 1997 in Poughkeepsie, NY
Genre: Alternative
Years Active: '90s, '00s
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