Spring Break
Motion City Soundtrack play SMU, plan new album release
Sommer Saadi, Contributing Writer, ssaadi@smu.edu
Issue date: 6/4/07 Section: Entertainment
The band's third album "Even If It Kills Me" is scheduled to drop Sept. 18. How has recording been coming along? Has anything influenced your sound since the sophomore album "Commit This to Memory"?
Making this album was a different experience because we worked with two different producers. [Part of the record will be co-produced by the tag team of Adam Schlesinger and Eli Janney and part of the record will be produced by Ric Ocasek.] It was about half and half. It was interesting because they were two different producers with two different approaches. I don't know if I would do it again. It's confusing because you get into it sort of and start understanding how people work, and then you're finished and have to start with a new person. If anything, it made it more interesting. It was interesting to work with two different approaches.
The thing I like is [the album] sounds a bit more random. It reminds me more of our first record ["I Am the Movie"], whereas on the second album ["Commit This to Memory"] all of the songs flow and there is one specific sound. Maybe I'm too close to the album to answer this question well. The representative at Epitaph [MCS record label] said this record sounds more like it should come between the first album and the second album. I don't know if I agree. It's still us-- goofy, dark, funny, all of the above. I sing a little better on it, at least I hope.
Making this album was a different experience because we worked with two different producers. [Part of the record will be co-produced by the tag team of Adam Schlesinger and Eli Janney and part of the record will be produced by Ric Ocasek.] It was about half and half. It was interesting because they were two different producers with two different approaches. I don't know if I would do it again. It's confusing because you get into it sort of and start understanding how people work, and then you're finished and have to start with a new person. If anything, it made it more interesting. It was interesting to work with two different approaches.
The thing I like is [the album] sounds a bit more random. It reminds me more of our first record ["I Am the Movie"], whereas on the second album ["Commit This to Memory"] all of the songs flow and there is one specific sound. Maybe I'm too close to the album to answer this question well. The representative at Epitaph [MCS record label] said this record sounds more like it should come between the first album and the second album. I don't know if I agree. It's still us-- goofy, dark, funny, all of the above. I sing a little better on it, at least I hope.
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LaurenCryptorchid
posted 6/05/07 @ 10:27 PM EST
I'm pretty darned excited for that album to come out. I hope they don't change the date again haha.
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