Concert Review: Motion City Soundtrack @ Electric Factory
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In front of a near sell-out crowd at the Electric Factory on Thursday night, Minneapolis band Motion City Soundtrack tore through the entirety of their now-10-year old sophomore album, Commit This to Memory — an album that defined the angsty resentment and search for individuality that misunderstood teens everywhere were seeking back in 2005.
Kelan Lyons
[ 1/29 ] In front of a near sell-out crowd at the Electric Factory on Thursday night, Minneapolis band Motion City Soundtrack tore through the entirety of their now-10-year old sophomore album, Commit This to Memory — an album that defined the angsty resentment and search for individuality that misunderstood teens everywhere were seeking back in 2005.
Though audience members undoubtedly had more facial hair and life experiences than when Commit This to Memory, Motion City’s current tour evokes a feeling of nostalgia as only music can; it was difficult to hear certain lines from “Together We’ll Ring in the New Year” and “Attractive Today” and not think of my self-conscious, awkward 13-year-old self locked in my room, playing video games and hating the world.
Motion City ended its 20-song set — which also included fan-favorite hits off My Dinosaur Life, Even if it Kills Me and I Am the Movie, as well as a new one off of the upcoming sixth studio album — with “The Future Freaks Me Out,” an ode to neuroticism and terror.
Set List:
- Attractive Today
- Everything is Alright
- When You’re Around
- Resolution
- Feels Like Rain
- Make Out Kids
- Time Turned Fragile
- Let’s Get Fucked Up and Die
- Better Open the Door
- Together We’ll Ring in the New Year
- Hangman
- Hold Me Down
Encore:
- Invisible Monsters
- Inside Out
- A Life Less Ordinary (Need a Little Help)
- Her Words Destroyed My Planet
- Last Night
- Capital H
- This Is For Real
- The Future Freaks Me Out
