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Fall Out Boy have revealed their new EP, a collaboration with Ryan Adams, online in full. Listen to Pax Am Days in full below.
The eight-track EP is a collaboration between the emo legends and the folk-rocker, which FoB bassist Pete Wentz reveals is influenced by bands including The Descendants, Gorilla Biscuits, Earth Crisis, and Damnation A.D.
"That's the music that got us into playing as Fall Out Boy and we wanted to pay homage to that," Wentz says in an interview with US website KROQ, who premiered the EP. "We can be a gateway. We can say like, 'Hey, check out what these other bands we grew up with do.' I think that's an important thing to do as an artist. But most importantly, it was just kind of [an] exercise in fun.
"It was like, 'Let’s just make noise and if it gets recorded, cool; if it never comes out, cool.'"
Listen to Pax Am Days in full below
Praising collaborator Ryan Adams, Wentz continued: "Ryan's brain works in such a divergent way. One minute he's telling a joke about kale salad and the next minute we're talking about old punk rock. I think that in some way it's childlike wonder, and in some ways it's so genius and different. He's such an outside-of-the-box thinker — it was really good for our band."
In the same interview, Wentz also revealed his early exposure to music was a long way from the angst-y rock sounds of Fall Out Boy, and that he grew up listening to old soul records his parents player.
"I really listened to a lot of stuff in the back of my parents’ car, so it was a lot of the Temptations, a lot of Motown standard stuff," he adds. "I didn’t really have a formal music education. My parents made me take piano lessons outside of school–which was difficult for me–and they said I would appreciate it later."
Pax Am Days will be released in the UK on 15 October and Fall Out Boy return to the UK for a string of shows in early 2014.
The full UK tour dates are as follows:
15-Mar - Cardiff, Wales @ Motorpoint Arena
16-Mar - Birmingham, England @ NIA
17-Mar - Manchester, England @ Phones 4 U Arena
18-Mar - Dublin, Ireland @ Olympia Theatre
20-Mar - London, England @ Wembley Arena
21-Mar - Newcastle, England @ Metro FM Arena
22-Mar - Glasgow, Scotland @ The SSE Hydro
Tickets go are on sale now. For more information visit Gigwise Gig Tickets.
