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So Much (for) Stardust (2023)

Where the lyrics of So Much (for) Stardust take you, and where it was really made.

Stump says it is not a throwback record, yet the album was imagined as if the band had made it right after Folie à Deux.

Key places

Recording at Sunset Sound, Hollywood (2023)

Recording site Sunset Sound — Listed as a recording location for this album, placed at building-level coordinates. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recording at Angel Recording Studios, London (2023)

Recording site Angel Recording Studios — Listed as a recording location for this album, placed at building-level coordinates. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recording at EastWest Studios, Hollywood (2023)

Recording site EastWest Studios — Listed as a recording location for this album, placed at building-level coordinates. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recording at Igloo Studios, Burbank (2023)

Recording site The Enterprise (Burbank) — Listed as a recording location for this album, but the point only reaches city-center level in Burbank. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• So Much (for) Stardust: eighth studio album by American rock band Fall Out Boy
• Released March 24, 2023 on Fueled by Ramen, Elektra Records and DCD2
• First album in five years, following Mania (2018)
• Lead single Love from the Other Side released January 18, 2023
• Second single Heartbreak Feels So Good released January 25, 2023
• Hold Me Like a Grudge: next single, music video released on the album's release day
• Title track music video released February 28, 2024, featuring NBA player Jimmy Butler

Background

• Mania received mixed reviews; the band went silent on new music apart from a second greatest hits album in 2019
• The album reunites the band with producer Neal Avron, who last produced Folie à Deux (2008)
• Return to Fueled by Ramen, which released the debut Take This to Your Grave (2003)
• The band's album deal with Island Records ended, leading to the signing with Fueled by Ramen and Elektra Records
• Guitarist Joe Trohman announced a break from the band to focus on his mental health on the same day as the single and album announcement
• Tracklist confirmed March 3, 2023

Recording

• Patrick Stump said technology makes records faster, but the band wanted to return to a more carefully crafted way of working
• Album marks a return to a more guitar-driven sound, comparable to Folie à Deux
• Disco, soul, funk, spoken word and orchestral elements are included

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

• Clash's Shannon Garner felt the band pulled themselves back into the pop-punk realm with this album
• DIY's Sarah Jamieson said it sounds closer to a continuation of Folie à Deux than to Mania, with bold, luscious pop-rock
• The Independent's Mark Beaumont cited grandiose orchestral passages, spoken word interludes and touches of funk pop
• AllMusic's Matt Collar called the album a gloriously welcome return to form
• Exclaim!'s Ian Gormely called it Fall Out Boy's best album in 15 years
• Kerrang!'s Nick Ruskell said they sound like Fall Out Boy again
• NME's Erica Campbell felt the album advances their sound while acknowledging their roots
• Sputnikmusic said producer Neal Avron stripped away the production layers that choked Mania
• The Telegraph's Neil McCormick felt that cutting some filler could have made it a stellar return to form
• Dork's Dillon Eastoe said the two eras of the band feel reconciled by the time the title track closes the album

Reappraisal

• Metacritic score of 79 out of 100 from eleven critics, indicating generally favorable reviews
• Alternative Press published it in an unranked list of the top 25 albums of 2023 to date in June 2023

Records

• US Billboard 200 debut at number six, chart dated April 8, 2023, selling 64,000 album-equivalent units
• Seventh consecutive top-ten album for the band
• Top ten in Australia, Germany, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa and the United Kingdom

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• In December 2022 the band released a claymation animation homage and began teasing a new song
• The band made a website called sendingmylovefromtheotherside.com as part of the teaser campaign
• Oliver Sykes of Bring Me the Horizon posted a package with a pink seashell labeled 1 of 13 and a letter
• In May 2023 the band released CRYNYL, a limited edition tear-filled vinyl of the album made with the art studio BRAIN
• The band performed Love from the Other Side on Jimmy Kimmel Live! the same day it was released

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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