Fall Out Boy - M A N I A

For the best part of the last two decades, Fall Out Boy have found themselves pushing against the norm. It’s on seventh album ‘M A N I A’, however, that they seem to fully realise how far they can go. The genre-bending ‘Young and Menace’ remains a showstopper, but refuses to dictate the whole picture. Alongside its revved up, auto-tuned chorus comes a slew of brilliant arena-rock songs - packed with Patrick Stump’s recognisable soulful vocals - which confidently flirt with electronics, rather than adopt them entirely. ‘HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T’ carries a punch but feels playful while Burna Boy’s guest vocal feels as at home as Jay Z once did, back on ‘Infinity On High’. ‘M A N I A’ was always going to be an interesting ride, but it’s also a deftly-created rock album with a cutting-edge twist.