“There’s something amiss, and through my life I’ve been like, maybe that’s why everyone is frustrated with me all the time,” he laughs. Pierre is similarly candid in conversation, sharing that he’s used the last year to investigate just what it is that makes him feel different. By underscoring that honesty with Moog synths and power chords, Motion City made feeling weird not just relatable, but something to dance to. On Motion City’s debut I Am The Movie and follow-up Commit This To Memory, Pierre writes about his struggles with precision and humour. The candour and vulnerability is part of what makes Motion City special to a lot of people, and it’s likely what will connect them to Pierre’s solo work. I’ve found beauty in the sadness that I found overwhelming when I was younger.” It’s weird to be happy-ish and write sad things. I concede that the music is upbeat – power chords and synthesisers beneath rapid-fire vocals – but the lyrics move inward. I feel like Illumination is oddly uplifting.” "To me, I think Days Will Run Away is a lot more depressing. “I can definitely see that," Pierre says. A theme of panic over time’s endless march runs through Illumination, and I draw similarities to Motion City’s Days Will Run Away, a sombre ode to time passing and a farewell to the band. “There’s been a lot of time for introspection.”Īn Anthropologist On Mars treads similar ground lyrically as Motion City Soundtrack: neuroses, self-deprecation, not fitting in. “I’m still kind of a piece of shit, but I’m working towards being less of one,” He laughs. He’s struggling to balance his own work with his fatherly duties, which has given him a new understanding of his wife’s day to day. “There is no room for yourself when you have to battle a five-year-old maniac and everything she wants to show you and play with,” he laughs, adding that he even managed to get a full eight hours of sleep recently. Pierre says that a large part of his recent education has come from her. I welcome it.”Įvery so often we’re interrupted by his daughter, a sweet five-year-old who ostensibly needs something but seems to want to be included. It’s been a really good experience to actually feel a minutiae of what she goes through every time I leave for a tour. “I think, unfortunately, as hip and as cool as I think I am in terms of splitting things, my wife definitely does 90% of the work in the relationship. "So when you are stuck in one spot, you become aware of all of the things that you’re not good at." It's also caused him to realise the burden of caring for their family usually falls on his wife. “I think there’s a bit of suspended adolescence that occurs with being in a band and being constantly somewhere else," he says. "If anything, I think that the last year has taught me to let go of a lot of old ideas about the way things are.”Īs we speak, Pierre is in good spirits, finally feeling almost in control after a year spiralling out of it – though the last few months at home with his family have been a learning curve. So even with Brett telling me to put it out as an EP, I just wanted to hold onto the stuff I had recorded until I had everything exactly how I wanted. It takes me a long time to come around to ideas. “It’s like picking a fight with the universe thinking you’ve got a chance,” he laughs. It's a universal truth that getting anything done right now is an achievement – still, it took Pierre, who jokingly calls himself neurotic, some convincing to realise that everything was totally out of his control. I loved the mixes, but I don’t know if I was in the right frame of mind,” he confesses.Įventually, of course, he relented, agreeing to release the five tracks he had recorded as an EP. Then I hurt my back and I was out forever, and we were mixing it and I was just out of my mind. Pierre resisted: “I was like, 'No, I’ve got a plan, I want to do the plan'. With the likelihood of recording the entire album seeming slim, Brett Gurewitz, the owner of Epitaph records, suggested releasing what he had as an EP. Within a couple of weeks everything shut down,” he says. “I remember seeing the news while I was over there at the end of March and I was flying back and I was so nervous. After the Motion City Soundtrack tour closed in February, Pierre flew to LA to record his album, planning to do it in pieces.
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