Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux (2 Lp's) 07/13/2010

Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux (2 Lp's) 07/13/2010For 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,"

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a songwriter who used to carry around a notebook so he could dissect why one pop song worked and another didn't

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" and the sparse poignancy of Jeff Ament's "Nothing As It Seems

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two often-opposing genres

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He was also writing songs as part of the successful production team the Smeezingtons

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equally genre-hopping collaborators helps him do this with surprisingly artful results: Kai's graceful vocals on "Never Be Like You" equal Streten's beats without distracting from them