Fall Out Boy are persevering with to tease their imminent return, delivering what appears to be a preview of a brand new tune in a video titled ‘A Claymation Fall Out Boy Celebration’.
The 2-minute quick, animated by Mr. Oz (finest identified for his work in Marvel’s ‘Venomverse’), begins with a trio of anthropomorphic stars descending from the night time sky right into a random yard, the place a canine appears to be like at them inquisitively.
One of many stars brushes a glittering powder onto the canine, earlier than an octopus-like alien creature emerges from its kennel and snatches it, dragging it right into a lair the place an enormous purple blob – replete with eight bulging eyes (doubtlessly nodding to Fall Out Boy’s subsequent album being their eighth) – swallows it complete. Contained in the alien blob’s abdomen, the canine is met by a cohort of glowing neon arms, who all vomit upon seeing it.
One of many arms smiles on the canine, nonetheless, main it to a portray on the wall that reveals the canine as some form of legendary deity. The wall slides open to disclose a tropical oasis, from which a brand new forged of trippy alien figures emerge. One alien transforms right into a door, with one other shoving the canine by way of it. Our canine lead winds up in one other yard – now within the daytime – the place a person seems to be grilling steaks.
A dropped steak catches the eye of the canine, however when the person turns round, it’s revealed that he’s lined from head to toe in murmuring faces. It’s now that we hear what’s assumed to be the opening chords of Fall Out Boy’s subsequent single – a punchy riff and gnashing, cymbal-heavy drums (evocative of the band’s debut album, 2003’s ‘Take This To Your Grave’) that lower off proper earlier than they launch into one thing larger.
Take a look at ‘A Claymation Fall Out Boy Celebration’ beneath:
Fall Out Boy began teasing their return just below a month in the past, after they took out a full-page advert within the Chicago Tribune to plug a brand new brand, “FOB 8” and the mysterious phrase, “Should you construct it, they are going to come.” The hype then continued earlier this 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 discipline. Hurricane warmth in my head. The form of ache you are feeling to get good in the long run. Inscribed like stone and pale by the rain: ‘Quit what you’re keen on hand over what you’re keen on earlier than it does you in…’”
They arrived alongside the launch of an internet site dubbed “sending my love from pink seashell seaside”, which can 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.”
Clicking the shell results in it flipping over, revealing a unclean baseball the place a pearl may sit. The scene then melts to a black display with the brand new FOB brand and a card studying: “The seaside was by no means actual. None of it’s.”
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 can be met with a type to ship off their identify, electronic mail and bodily deal with. 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.
Fall Out Boy’s final album was 2018’s ‘MANIA’, which NME’s Hannah Mylrea described in her three-star evaluate as “worlds away from the sensible pop-punk of [‘Take This To Your Grave’] or the rousing emo of 2005’s ‘From Beneath The Cork Tree’”.
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 occurring with it,” he instructed Rolling Stone. “I feel it sadly went to the again burner. It will be good to make a document 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 solution to do it that doesn’t sound like Fall Out Boy from 2005. It could be cool for any person else to try this, nevertheless it wouldn’t be cool for us to do it.”
