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Fall Out Boy

Save Rock and Roll

Fifth album, released following a five-year hiatus, from the emo / pop punk band, featuring cameos from the likes of Courtney Love, Big Sean and Elton John

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6.7

Label
Universal / Island
UK Release date
15/04/2013
US Release date
16/04/2013
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  1. 8.3 |   A.V. Club

    Save Rock And Roll is the band’s most personal album yet
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  2. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    Their songs career along with verve, high-register vocals from Patrick Stump, big choruses and clattering percussion
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  3. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Each track fuses punk-pop, boyband production values and Heart-style power-balladry to make a big enough noise to accompany fireworks in stadiums
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  4. 7.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Lots of people are probably offended that Fall Out Boy think they will save rock and roll. So ready those devil horns for the title track: a piano ballad featuring Elton John
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  5. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Time has done little to tame their over-the-top ambitions
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  6. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    A charming, convincing and much welcome comeback
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  7. 7.0 |   The Digital Fix

    If you’re ambivalent about Fall Out Boy there’s actually plenty to admire here; and if you’re a fan then you can get excited, this is an excellent return
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  8. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    As an honest portrait of the roller-coaster ride that is FOB's career, it finds them on a high
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  9. 7.0 |   NME

    Not to say it's a bad album, just one that's clearly in love with pop music
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  10. 7.0 |   All Music

    In 2013, when so many bands are donning tweed caps and pining for a past that never existed, it's kind of fun to have a band tackle the modern world in all its mess as Fall Out Boy do here
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  11. 6.0 |   State

    Stump notes that Fall Out Boy don’t know when to quit. He remains their one true constant – capable of brilliance but only sporadically revealing it
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  12. 6.0 |   The Independent

    Features enough airbrushed pop-punk to prove they haven't forgotten which side their bread's buttered
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  13. 5.0 |   musicOMH

    Save Rock And Roll is not only Fall Out Boy’s softest album yet, it is also their least memorable
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  14. 4.7 |   AltSounds

    After listening to Save Rock and Roll a dozen times now, I still find myself bewildered
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