Motion City Soundtrack is back and making us feel something again. Known for transmuting complex human emotions into hooky pop-punk charm, today the band shares the sobering rock ballad, ‘Your Days Are Numbered‘. The latest preview of their first new album in ten years, ‘The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World’ is out on September 19th via Epitaph.
Instead of relying solely on the nostalgia of their multi-decade run, for the new collection of songs, MCS challenged themselves to reach outside of their collective comfort zone. In that spirit, the moody new track features an impassioned cameo from Mat Kerekes (Citizen) that MCS frontman Justin Pierre describes as “fucking brutal.” Check out the stunning animated music video below, created by David Prindle.
On the new single, the band explains: “‘Your Days Are Numbered’ is a special song for us. It’s one we carried with us as a band for a long time, letting it grow until it was ready to be shared. The last few years have been hard on all of us personally, with the loss of family members and loved ones. Releasing this song now feels like the right time—a sad, but powerful anthem we needed to put into the world.
MCS adds: “Jesse reached out to his friend Mat Kerekes (Citizen) to see if he’d be interested in singing on a track. He said yes, so we sent him a few options we thought might fit, while also pushing around some other ideas. But Mat immediately gravitated toward this one, telling us, ‘It really resonates with me,’ and then jokingly added, ‘and I’m emo.’ He wasn’t kidding—the raw emotion he brought to ‘Your Days Are Numbered’ is something we truly love.”