Speculation that Fall Out Boy are about to drop new music has hit fever pitch, thanks to an email sent by the Illinois pop-punk icons to their fanclub mailing list.
Penned sometime late last year and Headlined 'A Homeboy’s Life', the email opens with some elaborate existential rambling, before dropping the news that every Fall Out Boy fan has been waiting for since this new wave of emo populism kicked off, they are working on new music.
The band states that they've been "jamming ideas in a tiny room and can't wait to share them with you" and thanks their fans for continuing to listen and support the band, despite their lack of output.
"Thanks for always sticking around. Thanks for working the beat. Spoiler alert: we got more than a gold watch coming for you next year.”
That last line has fans buzzing that the wait for Fall Out Boy's eighth full-length, the follow-up to 2018's somewhat divisive MANIA may nearly be over.
An image export of the full email can be seen below.
The email blast comes hot off the heels of the band posting a claymation teaser video last week, which in turn followed a series of cryptic postcards mailed out to fans and as reported by Consequence, a full-page newspaper ad that was published in their hometown paper, the Chicago Tribune in November.
greetings from: pink seashell beach!!! thanks for the postcard [from a plane crash, wish you were here ;) ] @falloutboy pic.twitter.com/uhMuFhLSbI
— a seriously goofy movie (@emmaquesadilla) December 12, 2022
Predictions as to what the forthcoming new music might sound like have been circulating amongst the FOB fanbase following some rather interesting comments by guitarist Joe Trohmer in an interview with Rollingstone's podcast Rolling Stone Music Now. Promoting his recent autobiography None of this Rocks, Trohmer caused a stir by revealing that the band had started working on music that would see them return to their rock and pop-punk origins.
"We were working on some stuff that was guitar-based,” he says. “I don’t know know what’s happening with it. I think it unfortunately went to the back burner. It would be nice to make a record where the guitar is a little more upfront. We did start that way, as a guitar-based rock band, and it’d be cool to go back to those roots. We’d have to find a way to do it that doesn’t sound like Fall Out Boy from 2005. It might be cool for somebody else to do that, but it wouldn’t be cool for us to do it.”
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