While Super Fade is very messy and a little over-sung, the other two tracks are a surprising return to form for Fall Out Boy! Nice job, Patrick!
Lake Effect Kid: 8.5
City In A Garden: 7.5
Super Fade: 5
Score:
7
Good
Just average. The band plays with every sound they've played in the past, for better and worse.
Lake Effect Kid: The best song on the album. Fall Out Boy brush off all the cobwebs on their thought-to-be-dead guitars, and PlAy ThEm? It's reminiscent of something off Cork Tree, although produced to modern pop standards. Nothing incredible, but fun nonetheless.
City in a Garden: A meh song, with a really repetitive chorus (If I wanted Country Roads I'd listen to it) but I do enjoy the verses a ... read more
Should have just released this instead of Mania. If Fall Out Boy's next album sounds more like this EP, that would be great.
Fall Out Bot shows love for Chicago, in varying results.
Lake Effect Kid - 90
City In A Garden - 70
Super Fade - 50
IT'S NOT TERRIBLE???????????????????
goddammit the clap beat ruined it
for the record the title track is actually good, like a 65 or so
1 | Lake Effect Kid 3:40 | 90 |
2 | City in a Garden 3:25 | 77 |
3 | Super Fade 3:45 | 61 |