FOB Push Back New Album

Fall Out Boy's release plans are changed. By them? By the label?

Posted Tuesday, 14 October 2008 in

Fall Out Boy have pushed back the release of new album 'Folie A Deux', the band released the following statement on the matter:

''Being from Chicago, we know "next years our year" all too well. 6 months ago we thought it would be a fun idea to release our album on election day but this is not the election to be cute. This is the most important election of our time and, as much as the record is a social commentary and the term "folie a deux" is relevant to the candidates, we felt as though rather than making a commentary we were only riding the wave of the election. This seemed less and less like what we intended to do and more of a gimmick.

While we have all individually expressed our positions on the candidates that we support we feel that many of the interviews and press for the record have skewed us into a partisan band. While it may be obvious where we stand. We never intended to be the band that shoved our ideas down peoples throats. We only hope people look at the bigger picture and investigate the issues further on their own.

We're sure many people will be left wondering what's going on, it is our intent to get our record out this year and as soon as possible- as we made sure to have it done in time for its original release. It is now in the hands of our label to give us a new release date.''

Tellingly, the band included the following information in their statement which does hint at a behind the scenes power struggle:

''When is the record coming out? Currently were not sure. We will be working hard to put pressure on our label to get it out before the end of the year but it is now in other people's hands.''

Bassist Pete Wentz later updated his blog with a new release date:

''Folie Ã Deux will be released on December 16. While that late in the year may be a surprise to some, we felt that it was important to get our record out this year for our fans. Though this is not the date we had originally planned, nor the optimal date according to some demographic marketing analysis, we put our eight feet down [and] told our label it must come out this year. We're already bummed enough that Chinese Democracy is gonna beat us to release.''