Tracklisting: 1. Make It Through the Night 2. Departure 3. I Clipped Your Wing 4. The Strings That Tie to You 5. Glass Figures 6. Whiterooms 7. Mirrors 8. On Earth (As It Is In Heaven) 9. Faults of a Realist 10. We Don't Have to Think Like That Anymore 11. When All the Lights Go Out

Record Company: Endgame Records

Release Date: Monday 1st March 2010

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Kent band Motion Picture Soundtrack release their new album The Shapes We Fear Are Of Our Own and what an epic piece this is. Where lead single Glass Figures was a raucous affair, the album has more diversity with some really emotional songs that show the band can mix things up.

Lead singer Alastair Blackwood's emotive voice cuts loose on a number of the tracks and there is a sense of long, drawn out tension. Opening track Make It Through The Night is an example of this. Departure, which was released as an EP is also included here and brings the pace up a notch in that Embrace, fast past Editors vein.

The piano interludes begin with I Clipped Your Wings which is a very dramatic and slow piece.

The highlight tracks would have to be The Strings That Tie To You with its beautifully sung and yearning lyrics, soft lilting piano. Likewise Whiterooms sees Blackwood at his most vulnerable with some glassy guitars ringing out  and Mirrors, another beautiful piano piece. The last few songs bring back out the long drawn out soundtrack feel with the last song When All The Lights (Go Out) certainly filling the niche and clocking in at over 8 minutes.

This is a great album with a good mix of songs that show the band's diversity, whether its lout guitar crashing songs or something more atmospheric or a yearning piano ballad, this band can do it all with Alastair Blackwood's voice filling each song very neatly.

They're certainly going to have a bright future although their choice of band name may seem some getting them confused with Motion City Soundtrack! Catch them for a string of dates including one at The Enteprrise on March 11th in Camden as well as a BBC Radion One Session at the end of March.