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Recently, on March 24th, 2023, Fall Out Boy released their most hyped album to date, So Much (for) Stardust. It clocks in at 44 minutes and 14 seconds, with 13 songs, and is currently rated a 81/100 on Metacritic, which is a music website where fans can send in their own opinions on albums and songs. It was also rated a ⅘ by Kerrang!, which is a music newspaper. The album starts off with “Love from the Other Side”, “Heartbreak Feels So Good”, “Hold me Like A Grudge”, “Fake Out”, “Heaven, Iowa”, and “So Good Right Now”, Each song has its own different feel, but you can tell that they still mesh together. The instrumentation of each song is wonderful, with some songs starting off with violins, while other songs start with drums, or guitars. Bass is mainly used for "Hold me Like a Grudge", but you can still hear the drums in the background. "Fake Out" starts with guitars, but the entire song is very peaceful, with the drums being used as a backing instrument, with acoustic guitar being the main instrument. "Heaven, Iowa" makes use of some different instruments, but it's mainly Patrick Stump’s voice, until later in the song, with drums backing his vocals. "So Good Right Now" sounds like a very 2010s pop song, since it is supposed to emulate some of Fall Out Boys earlier albums. The latter half of the album, which has the songs "The Pink Seashell (feat. Ethan Hawke)", "I am My Own Muse", "Flu Game", "Baby Annihilation", "The Kintsugi Kid (Ten Years)", "What A Time to be Alive", and "So Much For Stardust". "The Pink Seashell (feat. Ethan Hawke)", and "Baby Annihilation" are just nothing but talking, so they won't really be included. As for the other songs, starting with "I am My Own Muse", it starts with violins, but the trumpets and drums connect into the song, as well as Patrick Stumps vocals weaving the instruments together. "Flu Game" has very beautiful vocals, and starts off with the bass, as well as the drums, although the chorus is a bit repetitive. "The Kintsugi Kid (Ten Years)" almost didn't make it onto the album, but Patrick Stump described it as "..this will probably be a B-side. Everybody was kind of feeling that. And then when it was finished, it just felt so great. We collectively looked around like, “We need to do this song, right?”" With "What a Time to Be Alive", it's once again very pop-influenced, as well as having a lot of synthetic vocals in the song. Lastly, "So Much (for) Stardust" sounds like it would be in the credits of a movie, and Patrick Stump's voice compliments the electric guitar and drums used in the background. It's also filled with a bit of synthetic sounds, but you can't really hear it, and the lyrics call back to the first song on the album. Overall, this new Fall Out Boy album is one of their best yet, with a mix of tunes, and yet returning to the same point as one of their earlier albums. Comments are closed.
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