Folie
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Folie
Folie à Deux French for "A Madness Shared by Two") is the fourth studio album by American rock band Fall Out Boy. Produced by Neal Avron, the album was recorded from July to September 2008 at The Pass Studios and The Casita in Hollywood, California. As the follow-up to the band's commercially successful 2007 effort Infinity on High, it was released by Island Records on December 10, 2008, after the original November 4 release was postponed to avoid conflicts with the United States presidential election. Like the band's two previous releases, Folie à Deux was musically composed by lead vocalist and guitarist Patrick Stump, with lyrics penned by bassist Pete Wentz. In regard to the writing process, the band considered Folie à Deux to be their most collaborative record.-Wikipedia
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RollingStone
Advanced case of ADD, ricocheting between genres and eras, tempos and time signatures, often several times in a given song.
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Pretty Much Amazing
But the bad easily cancels out the good, making for a very mediocre album.
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Alt Press
The album’s standouts are so good that they will undoubtedly become standards for the band’s live shows for years to come.
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Slant
Folie à Deux simply cannot sit still.
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BBC
There is little about Folie À Deux that will float even the kindest critic's boat.
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AV Music
Bigger rock stars seem to be on the band's mind with Folie.
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All Music
There's so much going on in Folie à Deux, you either choose to take it all seriously or take none of it.
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Sputnik Music
Folie A Deux is by no means a disaster, it is a disappointment following on from the incredible promise of Infinity On High’s punk pop/funk rock fusion.
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Sputnik Music
Folie a Deux sees Fall Out Boy at the height of their highly addictive powers.
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The Guardian
The Chicago four-piece from angst-fuelled post-Green Day punk rockers into a multi-platinum-selling pop machine.
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Mind Equals Blown
Folie is a very good album, though I have to admit that my musical tastes weren’t yet ready to accept and appreciate it when it was first released.
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Drowned in Sound
Folie à Deux does look certain to satisfy fans' appetites as much as it may surprise and intrigue certain others.
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Pop Matters
As much as Wentz loves analyzing his own reflection, his current lyrical output is simply not as interesting as his early work.
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Suf Folk Free Radio
The whole album is a combination of rock, pop-punk, and emo with a little funk and electronica mixed in.
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Spin
Fall Out Boy is the biggest punk-influenced act to emerge this decade.
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Rock Sound Music
Occasionally repetitive, but never dull, there is enough familiarity to keep old fans loyal.
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Pop Buzz
One of the boldest mainstream rock records of recent years.
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Rock HAQ
This is a more mature offering which is sure to please fans old and new.
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Amino
The lyricism, the wordplay, the references; it all culminates to create an album that will live on in Fall Out Boy’s discography as one of, if not their best album to date.
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Los Angeles Times
It's not that FOB can't have grandiosity, but every stadium needs open air.
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Punk Rock Theory
The dudes in Fall Out Boy know what their fans want to hear and aren’t afraid to give them just that.
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Plugged In
Not worth the fallout when profanity, sex and drugs pop up.
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Entertainment ie
Folie à Deux sees a new, worldly-wise Fall Out Boy, who now care more about actual songcraft than stuffing their songs full of petulant angst and OTT guitar riffs.
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Contact Music
To take a classic pop song and make it sound so painful might be considered a difficult job, but it's pulled off with some aplomb here and only serves to emphasise the lack of quality on this record.
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Ombrophilia: Let There Be Music
One thing Folie brings to the table is the hook, clear and prominent in every song.
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Kill Your Stereo
Hasn’t had to dumb down its songwriting to reach a wider audience, a remarkable feat when you consider just how appalling most of the music that infiltrates the charts is.
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Whatever
I find myself noting with a growing alarm that when this generation’s rock bands mature, they get more twee.
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Entertainment
Folie isn’t flawless by any stretch, but it’s no folly either.
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Antiquiet
The Boy hasn’t grown up, but he seems to be recognizing the need to.
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Audio Phinyl
Decent music on this record, and if you like Fall Out Boy there's a lot to love here.
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I am
It's a pretty good album.
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