Falling in Reverse - Fashionably Late

Falling in Reverse's Fashionably Late is the album where Ronnie Radke tore up the post-hardcore rulebook, back on vinyl as a straight reissue of the 2013 original.

The band's second studio album, released on Epitaph and produced by Michael Baskette with Radke and Ryan Ogren, mashes together metalcore riffs, rap verses, pop-punk hooks and electronic drops, with even a hint of country twang along the way. Coming after the more conventional post-hardcore of their debut, it was a bold swerve, and listening now it sounds like an early blueprint for the genre-hopping chaos that has since become the band's calling card.

Alone is the lightning rod, a rap-metal provocation with Radke spitting verses over a stomping beat before the guitars come crashing in. The title track Fashionably Late and opener Champion lean into big, arena-sized choruses, and Bad Girls Club shows off the band's taste for swaggering party rock. Throughout, Jacky Vincent's shred-heavy lead guitar cuts through the mix, one of the defining sounds of this lineup.

It remains one of the most talked-about records in the Falling in Reverse catalogue, and it captures a band refusing to stay in its lane years before that became the norm. Fans who came in with Popular Monster will find the roots of it all here.