Fall Out Boy - Folie A Deux LP

For their third major label release, Fall Out Boy return as twice-minted multi-platinum celebrities and deftly deliver what they came to A huge rock album by a huge rock band. Having already lost any shred of punkdom that the '00s strand of emo ever had, the Illinois quartet seems unfettered by their chosen genre's boundaries and dive headlong into a loud stew of affecting power pop, glam, and classic rock hooks. The debut single, I Don't Care, reimagines Spirit in the Sky as an anthem for the skinny-jeans-and-guyliner set with scathing bon mots like I don't care what you think as long as it's about me courtesy of bassist-lyricist Pete Wentz. Singer-guitarist Patrick Stimp adds newly soulful and loose vocal phrasing to his usual arsenal of open-throated choruses-with particular strength on cuts such as Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet and What a Catch, Donnie, a stringed pow