Fall Out Boy have continued teasing their return with new music, sending a cryptic letter to followers.
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Over current weeks, the band have been working up in direction of the announcement of their first new music since 2018 album ‘M A N I A’.
Again in November, they took out an advert within the Chicago Tribune newspaper, that includes the phrases “FOB 8” adopted by the phrase “In the event you construct it, they’ll come” all towards a black background.
Final week, the band then delivered what gave the impression to be a preview of a brand new tune in a video titled ‘A Claymation Fall Out Boy Celebration’.
Now, they’ve despatched followers an e mail with a letter titled ‘A Homeboy’s Life’. After various cryptic paragraphs, the band revealed. “We spent the final yr jamming concepts in a tiny room [and] can’t wait to share them with you.
“Thanks for all the time sticking round. Thanks for working the beat. Spoiler alert: we bought greater than a gold watch coming for you subsequent yr.”
See the complete letter under.
FALL OUT BOY !!! pic.twitter.com/XbIZV28ofB
— NOAHFINNCE🐀🪱 (23) (@noahfinnadams) January 1, 2023
The band’s teasing continued final month, when followers started receiving cryptic postcards with the title ‘Pink Seashell Seaside’.
These postcards got here with a message studying: “I noticed you in a vibrant clear area. Hurricane warmth in my head. The form of ache you’re feeling to get good in the long run. Inscribed like stone and pale by the rain: ‘Hand over what you like surrender what you like earlier than it does you in…’”
They arrived alongside the launch of a web site dubbed “sending my love from pink seashell seashore”, which can also be promoted with the brand new claymation video. Upon getting into the positioning, guests are met with the visible of pink seashell etched with the phrase, “The solutions are within this.”
One other web site, dubbed “sending my love from the opposite facet”, asks followers to “RSVP to the opposite facet”. Clicking a immediate, inquisitive guests will likely be met with a type to ship off their identify, e mail and bodily tackle. A header on the positioning reads, “Welcome to the opposite facet of the apocalypse,” and clicking on the “O” in “different” will result in the brand new FOB brand (donning a Santa hat) overtaking the splash web page.
In the meantime, guitarist Joe Trohman revealed again in September that Fall Out Boy had been engaged on some new “guitar-based” materials, which had apparently been placed on the backburner. “I don’t know know what’s taking place with it,” he informed Rolling Stone. “I feel it sadly went to the again burner. It might be good to make a file the place the guitar is a bit more upfront.
“We did begin that manner, as a guitar-based rock band, and it’d be cool to return to these roots. We’d must discover a method to do it that doesn’t sound like Fall Out Boy from 2005. It may be cool for any individual else to do this, but it surely wouldn’t be cool for us to do it.”
