M A N I A
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M A N I A
Mania (stylized as M A N I A, M A N I A or MAN I A and formally titled Mania: A Fall Out Boy LP) is the seventh studio album by American rock band Fall Out Boy, released on January 19, 2018, by Island Records and DCD2 as the follow-up to their 2015 album, American Beauty/American Psycho. The release of the album was preceded by five singles: "Young and Menace", "Champion", "The Last of the Real Ones", "Hold Me Tight or Don't", and "Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)".The album received largely mixed reviews from music critics upon release but fared well commercially, debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200.- Wikipedia
Critic Reviews
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Spin
Fall Out Boy Have the Wrong Ideas About Pissing Off Punk Purists.
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NME
Fall Out Boy sack off their old sound on their totally bonkers, and occasionally brilliant, seventh album.
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Variety
Fall Out Boy's drift further into pure pop makes for an interesting blend with their unchanged lyrical emphasis on anxiety.
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Rolling Stone
Fall Out Boy Turn Meltdowns Into Jock Jams on ‘Mania’.
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Plugged In
Despite some meaningful moments of introspection here, profanity and a sense of futility do indeed make Mania a tough pill to swallow much of the time.
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Drowned In Sound
This is a feeble gesture of benign, stadium-sized pop that’s been cynically constructed, artificially beefed-up and saturated beyond the point of listenability.
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Forbes
Fall Out Boy's 'MANIA' Proves The Value Of Authenticity.
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The Guardian
Songs to appal and appease the hardcore.
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USA Today
Fall Out Boy's 'Mania' is an unholy mess.
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Sputnik Music
Fall Out Boy seem more content with mashing several unfitting cliches together into an album that ultimately lacks satisfaction and direction.
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Ocolly
'MANIA' is both fun and confusing.
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Cryptic Rock
Bigger and bolder, still rocking but with an infectious nod toward more vanilla tastes than their Hardcore roots.
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USD Student Mania
a wild ride of intense, powerful, and memorable songs.
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Newsday
balances rock and pop with ease.
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AV Club
resets, sort of, on the delayed Mania.
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Infectious Magazine
an album that showcases the growth and the versatility of a band that has reinvented their sound for a new generation.
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The Music
may well be the album that pulls them ever so slightly out of the nostalgic band pile.
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Kill Your Stereo
It’s decent, it’s passable, and you could do so much worse.
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Exclaim
remains a fun listen.
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Varsity
The band that made ‘Sugar We’re Goin’ Down’ are still in there, but it’s hard to see if they’ll ever emerge again.
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Punk News
lacks soul, melody, rhythm and any kind of harmony.
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Diandra Reviews It All
proves that good bands can really last in this industry.
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Immortal Reviews
It's refreshing to hear and certainly exceeds expectations.
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Arena
Nearly every track on this album teases a redeemable moment that never comes.
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Us For Once
has cashed in on life and unlocked the secret to their full potential.
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NZ Herald
The casual fan will most likely find one or two songs that he or she enjoys but should probably steer clear until the next album.
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The Musical Hype
feels too pop-punk to be EDM and too EDM to be pop-punk – it fails to find a happy medium.
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Whip
is unlike anything Fall Out Boy has done in the past. At the same time, MANIA still sounds like Fall Out Boy, a reimaged Fall Out Boy.
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ALL Music
All this feverish digital desperation makes the already clamorous M A N I A feel positively cacophonic.
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The Young Folks
is a welcome expansion of Fall Out Boy’s arsenal of songs about the vicissitudes of life and love.
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The DM Online
feels overproduced, lacks distinct voice.
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B Sides
is comfortable for the band who are obviously keeping an eye on the culture of their home country.
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Pop Buzz
the level of variety on show is something to be admired.
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Panther Print
shakes your inner rebel- your quiet, but passionate voice, to surface and tantalizes every fiber in your body to just dance.
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Wall of Sound
Great to sing to and have a little jam
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CRW Surveyor
Might just be the best Fall Out Boy album yet.
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The Courier
lost the style that has given them so many past successes. This could have been so much better.
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MOSH
Peculiarities aside, the thumping bassline and creative lyrics make for an excellent piece of music.
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The Crimson Messenger Online
The style is certainly not for everyone, but if you like rock and pop, you’ll definitely like this album.
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We Plug Good Music
With the overall expression of it doesn’t matter what happens, we’re going for it and going to come out on top.
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Kube
They are continuing to make music without becoming a parody of themselves or sacrificing elements of their unique sound.
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Maroon Weekly
The former is an addictive new favorite, and the latter is more reminiscent of Fall Out Boy’s rock roots.
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Stars and Scars
Whether you live for those heavy guitar riffs and unclean vocals, or those beat drops and whistles, or you are just feeling skeptical. You may end up enjoying it.
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The Modern Record
Overall this is not the album I expected from FOB to release.
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The Edge
The same indignant passion typical of the Chicago-born boys behind it to drive.
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Golden Plec
is, by no means, a terrible album. It would even be a stretch to call it ‘bad’, just because it’s so much darn fun to listen to.
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Reddit
it is a good album and I would call it my favorite of their 3 post-hiatus albums because of its darker tone, deeper meaning, and ambitious focus.
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Boston Globe
Fall Out Boy makes a mess.
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The Harbinger
It’s clear that the band and its sound has changed, but the result still gets you up and out of your seat and excited to see what other direction this band will take.
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The Ithacan
is an album that permeates the current music scene without offering anything of substance.
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Western Herald
Despite this album’s failures, I still believe these are talented musicians.
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Sauk Valley
Making the most of Fall Out Boy’s mediocre
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Nerve Now
It is yet again, another outstanding album from the band.
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Raider Reader
Many people love the album in general and the songs give people feelings of power or confidence.
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All Campus Radio Network
proves that experimenting and going full mainstream pop don’t blend well together.
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The Mirror
The album is beyond satisfactory to me for the majority of the individual songs.
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Retro Grade
It felt forced, and it didn’t have any type of cohesiveness or concept really.
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GBHBL
one with a shockingly amount of poor tracks that even the hardcore faithful would struggle to enjoy.
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Minnesota Daily
proves we’re not in 2003 anymore. We wish we were.
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Behind the Scenes
Whilst for the most part this album is very bold and ambitious in its intentions, there are also moments where it sounds like a chaotic mess and feels very inconsistent.
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Vidette Online
vast improvement for Fall Out Boy.
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The Courier
It was a different sound for them compared to anything they have ever done.
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The Keystone Newspaper
honest cynicism and decorative lyrics are still refreshing.
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It's All Dead
is an anomaly that may just change your opinion of it based on what tracklist you hear.
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Brig News
A relevant band in an age of mania.
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Shani's Ideas
is an amazing, well-done and well-crafted masterpiece that was very worth the wait.
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The Times
seems like a misguided stab at achieving that goal.
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Trip Muze
I don’t say that’s an awful album, but not exciting.
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Spectrum Culture
There’s something impressive about the prolonged second act of Fall Out Boy’s career, but it’s certainly not the music.
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Thoroughly Modern Reviewer
It’s not an album that’s made for hardcore fans of Fall Out Boy’s pre-hiatus sound; it’s an album made for fans of today’s popular music.
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Edinboronow
proves they still have some musical risks up their sleeves, and a definite will to diversify their sound – even if it leads to shear mania among their long-time fan base.
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Sound Digest
is a unique and different sound for Fall Out Boy.
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COTMA
I'm incredibly disappointed that this album missed the mark.
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Spark
This album is amazing in every aspect, whether it be lyrically, instrumentally and more.
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My TJ Now
is a fresh reminder that Fall Out Boy is just as talented as they always have been, and they’re not going anywhere.
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Dstrct
A work worthy of inclusion of the band’s long and successful catalog of music.
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The Life & Times of Ice
FALL OUT BOY-MANIA #WONKY.
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Odyssey
I can't wait to keep listening to this album and find new things I love about every song.
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Beat
Pop-punk Fall Out Boy is dead and gone.
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Richer Sounds
The band have matured to just the right degree with their fans and have likely retained fans with this work, and picked up a few new ones.
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Hidden Jams
is an excellent album and a worthy addition to your Fall Out Boy collection.
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The Thin Air
Your time is worth no more than the derivative slop that is Mania.
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Star 2
is so busy, poppy, glossy and over-zealously ebullient that no one working within its confines could’ve been mopey,and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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Spectrum Pulse
Easily Fall Out Boy's worst record.
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College Tribune
All-in-all, there are a few songs that I hope will be released as singles but in general Fall Out Boy’s seventh studio album disappoints.
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afterLive
Overall, MANIA isn’t terrible, but it’s certainly not a return to the good old days of From Under the Cork Tree.
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The Beacon
They’ve given life to a whole new string of songs that all have a special meaning to give. And they killed it.
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Partial Disclosure
YOU ARE DEPRIVING YOURSELVES.
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A Diverse Sound
It’s confusing, ugly, disorientating, and entirely unpleasant.
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The Aquarian
is what you need to start your day.
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The Phoenix Remix
It’s so different to a lot of their previous work that you may just like some of it.
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Rock Sins
A big loud hook drenched summer pop album it works incredibly well and may surprise you.
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The Anchor
This album was worth the wait.
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Album Analysis
There was some slight value in the harmonic loop from time to time. One thing that Fall Out Boy did succeed at to a respectable degree was choosing interesting yet fitting chord patterns.
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UCLA Radio
Still a great record consisting of the normal Fall Out Boy elements - angst and determination.
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Media Dissection
all I got was an overwhelming sense of disappointment.
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Bird Eye News
I may be disappointed with MANIA, but I won’t let that stop me from loving Fall Out Boy for what they are and what they used to be.
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Surreal Resolution
Maybe it’s time for Fall Out Boy to hang it up again… possibly for good this time.
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CU Independent
Just because you can still log on to Myspace in 2018 doesn’t mean you should, and the same goes for listening to a new Fall Out Boy record.
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Don't Bore Us
is a state of mind, a feeling and a moment in time.
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Gig Soup
The band will continue to have odd and magnificent lyrics, an exceptional vocalist, and amazing tunes.
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The Princeton LP
The band still remains consistent in that its songs are hard-hitting, fast-paced, and of course, full of angst.
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Mainstream Albums
has delivered an album close to perfection.
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Stereo Board
just proves that the further the band venture out from the nest, the less certain they are about where to go.
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The Tower Light
I can say that this record has something very few pop acts possess right now: identity.
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The North Star
effectively fuses hodgepodge of styles.
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The Knight Times
I was surprised because they took on a totally different sound the they usually do, but I enjoyed it quite a bit.
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The Gate Post
An experiment of adrenaline.
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Seeds
FALL OUT BOY’S ‘MANIA’ IS A HOT MESS.
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iPatriot Post
It’s one catchy album with songs that you’ll catch yourself humming when you least expect it.
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The Linc
Perfectly complements their already extensive list of work.
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ART NYC
is a mishmash of sonic gadgetry and over-blown production.
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The Flash
it sounds experimental but it’s still the classic Fall Out Boy vibe.
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The Dispatch
No one can deny that Fall Out Boy has delivered on the unique ‘sound’ they never fail to give their fans.
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Stay Reckless
But this is easily Fall Out Boy’s worst record.
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The Hoya
some are able to break away and shine.
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Gulf News Music
Mania doesn’t have enough big tunes like that one to really pull it off, but the band deserve a lot of credit for such continual reinvention.
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Kaleb Koho Writes
While there are a few gems in it, it’s just too muddled and half-baked to be considered any good as a whole.
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