Motion City signed a multiple-album deal with Columbia Records several months before releasing their previous album. Following the move, the guitarist Joshua Cain said, “It just felt right to make the move when there was the right interest there.” With the new signing, the band’s promotional team aimed to develop a balance between the benefits of a new major label and their previous grass-roots approach. Their next album saw the band reunite with producer Mark Hoppus, and the album was mostly recorded at his studio in North Hollywood, Opra Music, between April and June 2009. Hoppus said that the band wanted to follow in the tracks of Commit This to Memory , but to push things further. Pierre later recalled that the atmosphere in the studio was more loose than their first time working with Hoppus. The band picked the title My Dinosaur Life after a quote Pierre kept repeating—they felt it a nice representation of the album’s themes, which include growing old and feeling out of place. After completing the album, the band toured with Blink-182 on their reunion tour , and Pierre undertook a promotional tour called On the Dino Trail wherein he performed acoustic sets.
Signed with Columbia Records
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