Justin Courtney Pierre – ‘The Price Of Salt’

It’s been a heartbeat since Motion City Soundtrack front man Justin Courtney Pierre treated us to the consistent and digestible EP that was ‘An Anthropologist On Mars’. Now, just four months later, he’s back with ‘The Price Of Salt’. The EPs announcement was complemented by an essay from Pierre that sees him recall developing a stutter as a child, going to speech therapy, embracing a book about synonyms and antonyms to avoid using vowels, and how learning the words to Beastie Boys’ ‘Paul Revere’ was the gateway to ending his stuttering. It concludes with him continually being fascinated by how everything is interconnected and has a knock-on effect. So how does this relate to ‘The Price Of Salt’? Well, anyone familiar with JCP’s songwriting will know how self-aware he is, and this five trac...