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What? Like High School Musical on a fieldtrip to the Warped Tour, the unabashedly theatrical Fall Out Boy bring an anthemic sheen to every track on their new album, Folie à Deux, out today. They may be known for their emo and pop-punk sound, but here the quartet distinguish themselves by lyrically recanting emo's crybaby rep -- they cop to debauchery-ridden activity (see: "detox to retox" chorus on "Disloyal Order of Water") and dis the genre's tendency toward Bell Jar melodrama ("The Shipped Gold Standard"). Still, they're careful not to alienate longtime fans: "What a Catch Donnie"'s half-winking, half-bragging...

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