Evening Out With Your Girlfriend - Fall Out Boy

A catchy and heartfelt release by everyone's favourite pop-punk band, Fall Out Boy shine on this minimalist 2003 release. Prior to their major successes, this record has a very basic, grungy appeal and lacks the finesse of later recordings. 'Evening with your Girlfriend' is billed as a 'mini LP', although I think that this is less than charitable for what is essentially a finished product with nine good complete tracks. The difference between this and 'Take This to your Grave' (the group's other 2003 release) is frankly astounding and this is considerably less confident. I have no doubt that this is one of those records touted by the sort of individual who ...  Read the complete review