Panic Stations
by Motion City Soundtrack
  • Record Label: Epitaph
  • Release Date: Sep 18, 2015
User Score
6.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 17
  3. Negative: 4 out of 17
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  1. mau1
    Dec 4, 2015
    2
    Coming from a long time fan of MCS, "Panic Stations" is the most uninspired sounding LP the quintet has released to date. Almost every song trods along at the same pace, never truly jumping into anything musically interesting. The lyrical stylings of Justin Pierre are few and far between, ranging from really smart to really asinine and boring. The drumming, a staple of the MCS formula, isComing from a long time fan of MCS, "Panic Stations" is the most uninspired sounding LP the quintet has released to date. Almost every song trods along at the same pace, never truly jumping into anything musically interesting. The lyrical stylings of Justin Pierre are few and far between, ranging from really smart to really asinine and boring. The drumming, a staple of the MCS formula, is disparagingly simple for the majority of the record. The few standouts (Gravity, Days Will Run Away, I Can Feel You) only standout because of the mediocrity they are positioned around. They would be the "okay" tracks on any other record. The production choices, while pointed, fail to deliver anything substantial. It does indeed sound "live", but did anyone ever stop to ask if that was a good idea? Unproduced vocals, shoddy mixing, these and several other factors lead to a thoroughly disappointing experience.… Expand

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Kerrang!
    Sep 24, 2015
    80
    Like a poison ice cream, MCS are once again delicious, but deadly. [26 Sep 2015, p.52]
  2. PopMatters
    Sep 17, 2015
    70
    There’s an assurance here that hasn’t been present on the band’s previous sets, and at the end of the day, it has provided an essential layer to a rock formula that needed forward movement in order to survive in the first place.
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  3. Absolute Punk (Staff reviews)
    Sep 17, 2015
    75
    This is an album for the Spotify era--a disparate collection of eleven singles, with no unifying message or even common mindset I can discern.
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