Customer Reviews

Matchbook Romance / Motion City Soundtrack

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I am usually a fan of acoustic efforts from bands. They have a certain feeling that you cannot get from any other form of the song. In the case of this perticular EP, I got a very weak feeling. While I am a huge fan of Motion City Soundtrack, and do own and enjoy Matchbook Romance's Stories and Alibis, this record does not meet my expectations from either of the bands. Both the Matchbook Romance songs are weakly sung and Motion City Soundtrack lack their usual energy. "When You're Around" is really the only stand out song on the entire record. But clearly not worth the purchase price. If you're looking for a good record from either of these bands, stick to their major label debutes "I Am The Movie", and "Stories and Alibis", as you will be much happier.

matchbook romance ruins it...that guy CANNOT sing acoustically (???)...i mean i like MBR but they need not ever do this again....both motion city soundtrack songs are amazing and worth the 6$ ...plus the artwork is awesome and so is the actual cd (a clear cd) HA!

Matchbook Romance's In Transit (For You) is a horrible opening to the ep. They get a horrible sound out of the guitar. It sounds like a really cheap nasty instrument. The chords they play are as standard as chords get, no depth of harmony whatsoever, the chord changes add even more lameness into the mix and the guys voice doesn't sound good either. Their other song, Playing For Keeps, is better, but still not good. It sounds a bit like Dashboard Confessional's weaker songs. Motion City Soundtrack's contribution is a bit better. When You're Around is a nice song, but the guy's voice really isn't suited to this kind of music. Their other track, Sunday Warning, is the best on the ep. It reminds me a whole lot of Christie Front Drive, which is awesome, especially in the vocals, which feel a lot more in place on this song. This is a really great song, their best ever, and I hope their next release has some more like it. They kinda cheat on the "acoustic" thing though. Both their songs are enhanced by some electric guitar additions.

First of all Motion City Soundtrack ROCKS!!! and so does Matchbook Romance. This album is showing the new stuff from motion city soundtrack, which there NEW album is being created....
In conlusion motion city soundtrack is coming out with a new album soon and this shows some of there new stuff!

This album is really great. It is supposed to show how they can still play unplugged.

Matchbook Romance does a great job on switching to acoustic. In Transit (for you) starts off slow and switches to a louder sound one by one.
With the song Playing for Keeps(Acoustic) they show how they can change it up a little bit. They show how dynamic they could be with different styles

Motion city soundtrack still has a little of punk in their hand. They our acoustic, but not really. They really on vocals to keep them up. The guitar parts are really messy.

Matchbook Romance really took the part on this one. But overall these are too good bands, and this album is really good, so go check it out