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Mania (M A N I A) (2018)

Where the lyrics of Mania (M A N I A) take you, and where it was really made.

Three tracks were scrapped during the sessions and later came out as a separate EP, released under a different alias.

Key places

Sunset Sound Recorders (2018)

Recording site Sunset Sound — Sunset Sound Recorders in Los Angeles is listed as a recording studio for tracks 1 and 4 of the album. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Electro-Vox Recording Studios (2018)

Recording site Electro-Vox Studios — Electro-Vox Recording Studios in Los Angeles is listed as a recording location for track 1 of the album. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Mania (stylized M A N I A): seventh studio album by American rock band Fall Out Boy
• Released January 19, 2018 through Island Records and DCD2
• Produced by Jonny Coffer, D. Sardy, Jesse Shatkin, and Butch Walker, plus self-production by the band
• Preceded by five singles: "Young and Menace", "Champion", "The Last of the Real Ones", "Hold Me Tight or Don't", and "Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)"

Background

• Sixth studio album American Beauty/American Psycho (2015) brought commercial success and worldwide acclaim
• Writing and recording for the seventh album began during touring for American Beauty/American Psycho
• In 2016 at Reading and Leeds Festival, Patrick Stump introduced "Young and Menace" to Pete Wentz, which started the album
• Wentz described the album as a big palette cleanse
• Originally set for September 15, 2017, then pushed to January 19, 2018
• Stump said the album was not ready and felt rushed
• Tracklist revealed November 6, 2017
• Several streaming platforms published the tracks out of order before release; physical copies kept the original order

Recording

• Studios listed: Sunset Sound Recorders and Electro-Vox Recording Studios, both in Los Angeles
• Fall Out Boy handled additional production and engineering on all songs
• Three unfinished tracks were scrapped during the sessions, and those tracks later came out as the EP Llamania on February 23, 2018

Cover

• Artwork photography by Pamela Littky

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Fall Out Boy is an American rock band formed in 2001 in Wilmette, Illinois, a Chicago suburb.
• Pete Wentz and Joe Trohman began it as a pop-punk side project; Patrick Stump joined shortly after.
• Andy Hurley became the drummer after several earlier drummers.

Members

• Current members: Patrick Stump (lead vocals, guitar), Pete Wentz (bass), Joe Trohman (guitar), Andy Hurley (drums).
• Wentz writes the lyrics and Stump is the primary composer.

Career

• The debut album Take This to Your Grave (2003) became an underground success through heavy touring.
• From Under the Cork Tree (2005) brought mainstream success with the singles "Sugar, We're Goin Down" and "Dance, Dance", and earned a Best New Artist Grammy nomination.
• Infinity on High (2007) debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.
• After a hiatus from 2009 to 2012, the band returned with Save Rock and Roll (2013), its second number-one album.
• American Beauty/American Psycho (2015) and Mania (2018) also reached number one on the Billboard 200.
• So Much (for) Stardust (2023) marked a return to guitar-driven material.

Reception

At release

• Mixed reviews from music critics
• At Metacritic the album has an average score of 59 from 12 reviews, indicating mixed or average reviews
• Writer Rick Vagabond called it an eclectic mess of tracks, read as the manic thoughts of an individual, and saw it as a departure in which the band tried something different

Reappraisal

• In 2023 Pete Wentz said the band's thoughts on the album were taken out of context
• Wentz called it a direct response to a landscape that was hard on bands, with an intentionally noisy and polarizing sound
• In his memoir None of this Rocks, guitarist Joe Trohman said he wanted little to do with the album and regrets it
• Trohman wrote that the album has some cool ideas but that he cannot say he loves it

Records

• Debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 on February 3, 2018 with 130,000 album-equivalent units, 117,000 of them pure sales
• Fourth US number-one album for the band, and third consecutive album to debut at number one
• First album since their debut not to produce a Billboard Hot 100 single
• Number three rock album in Nielsen's mid-year 2018 chart with 233,000 equivalent units
• 558,000 album-equivalent units in the home country as of February 2023
• Certified Gold by the RIAA for half a million units
• Nominated for Best Rock Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in 2019

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Wilson (Expensive Mistakes) was first performed live on October 20, 2017, as part of the Mania Tour setlist.
• The Mania Tour ran in North America, Australia, and New Zealand, with support from blackbear, Jaden Smith, and Waax.
• Before the release, the band held a pop-up event in Chicago called The M A N I A Experience, with rooms named after songs from the record.
• The video for Hold Me Tight or Don't takes a notable influence from the Mexican holiday Day Of The Dead.
• Pete Wentz later confirmed that the physical track listing differed from the downloadable version.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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