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| Personnel Patrick Vaughn Stump vocals guitars keyboards programming Joe Trohman guitars keyboards programming background vocals Jake Sinclair Butch Walker keyboards percussion programming background vocals Andy Hurley drums percussion background vocals Pete Wentz background vocals Audio Mixer Dave Sardy Recording information Abbey Road Studios London CA IV Lab Rubyred Recordings Venice CA Silent Sound Studios Atlanta GA Sonora Recorders Early on in Save Rock and Roll Patrick Stump sings he ll change you like a remix then raise you like a phoenix words written as always by Pete Wentz and sentiments that place this 2013 Fall Out Boy comeback in some kind of perspective After the absurdly ambitious 2008 LP Folie Deux the band expanded and imploded winding up in a pseudo-retirement where Stump released an inspired but confused solo record while Wentz pursued Black Cards a band that went nowhere Failure has a way of reuniting wayward souls and so Stump Wentz Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley all settled their differences and cut Save Rock and Roll an album that acts like Fall Out Boy never went away while simultaneously acknowledging every trend of the last five years Alone among their peers Fall Out Boy are always acutely conscious of what s on the charts not limiting themselves to the brickwalled blast of modern rock but also dipping into the crystalline shimmer of R amp B and even sending up the folk stomp of Mumford amp Sons on Young Volcanoes One of great things about Fall Out Boy - the thing that s infuriating and intoxicating in equal measure - is that it s difficult to discern where their sincerity ends and their parody begins That s particularly true of Save Rock and Roll where the group is negotiating its rapidly approaching maturity along with the fashions of the time They re not entirely successful partially because they rely on their trusty emo onslaught of unmodulated chords and emotions partial |
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