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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Folie follows the precedent of 2007's "Infinity On High," which expanded Fall Out Boy's sonic palette (synthesizers, sequenced drums, strings, etc.). This one just goes further, with more layers and cameos from Elvis Costello, Debbie Harry, Lil Wayne, and others.

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Hartford Courant

This is a more sophisticated record that manages to keep intact the brash sensibility that helped attract all those fans in the first place.

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Boston Globe

It's simply another sturdy album that plays up what Fall Out Boy does best: rocking the arena with barely a second to catch your breath.

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All Music Guide

Whether intentional or not, there's a certain glee to FOB's pop absurdity because their cheerfully careless genre-bending has no reverence: fitting all these sounds and jokes into a pop song is all a game and it's one listeners can share, whether they're playing spot-the-allusion or just succumbing to the sugary hooks clustered within one track.

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Blender

This is the brightest, breeziest, giddiest record Fall Out Boy have ever made.

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New Musical Express

The band have responded with their most stylistically hatstand-but-indisputably-best songs yet.

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Observer Music Monthly

And while this all may sound suspiciously over-indulgent, the fact is these self-styled 'soft-core' rockers are fulfilling their own prophesy.

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Entertainment Weekly

Passionate, splashy, and ambitious, Folie isn't flawless by any stretch, but it's no folly either.

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Alternative Press

While Folie A Deux at times feels like the band are showing off the contents of their Rolodex, the album's standouts are so good that they will undoubtedly become standards for the band's live shows for years to come.

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Spin

If the band could bring themselves to record with anything resembling subtlety, they might win over some skeptics. But they also might end up hanging with Lightspeed Champion. I suspect they'll take the trade-off.

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Rolling Stone

In Fall Out Boy's world, tongue-in-cheek always trumps heart-on-sleeve. That's certainly the case on Folie à Deux, their most exuberantly cheeky release yet.

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Dot Music

Folie A Deux is entertaining in moderate doses, like its predecessor "Infinity On High", where the band gleefully abandoned any last pretence to edginess.

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MSN Consumer Guide (Robert Christgau)

Low-tune for a pop band, low-momentum for a rock band, they stand a chance of evoking bad Elvis Costello when they take you by surprise or emote on in the background.

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Los Angeles Times

But for all the steps forward, Folie a Deux also seems to contain a microchip for its own destruction.

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The Guardian

Patrick Stump is an impassioned frontman, and shows what he can do on the ambitious, multi-segment WAMS, but there's only so much creativity he can wring out of this conventional rock.

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Mojo

Folie A Deux recalls the high-impact pop oof "Private Eyes"-era Hall & Oates, and that's preferable to sounding like Blink 182. [Jan 2008, p.104]

Q Magazine

Folie A Deux is mostly a barrelling, hugely confident record that should see Fall Out Boy swiftly elevated into mainstream rock's premier league. [Jan 2009, p.112]

Drowned In Sound

Whether or not this is enough to inspire acolytes the likes of which this writer had a first-hand audience with some three years ago remains to be seen, though Folie à Deux does look certain to satisfy fans' appetites as much as it may surprise and intrigue certain others.

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cokemachineglow

This is a power-pop album released by the biggest Fall Out Boy-ish band working today, on a major label, but it’s also 50.4 minutes of Fall Out Boy music--an extended, incomprehensible and surprisingly marketable clamor, ambulance siren loud, of contradictory signifiers.

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Slant Magazine

The album's best moments are those that hum along unassumingly, giving the songs room to be catchy and simple and the hooks room to sneak up on you. These moments, however, are rare and fleeting.

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PopMatters

Though Folie a Deux is still riddled with problems (ending the disc with the Survivor-esque closer 'West Coast Smoker' makes for a somewhat hurried conclusion), it’s still a musical leap in the right direction for the band, as it adds just enough new elements to keep things interesting while not straying too far from the sound that made them big in the first place.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 7.8 (out of 10) based on 36 User Votes

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abbie p gave it a2:
I don't like folie a deux, cause it has become main stream! I also don't like it cause it isn't emo any more and some songs sound like Christmas carols, i was really sad when the album came out because i thought it would be even better than infinity on high, but it wasn't. I am a really big fan of fall out boy, i just hope the next album is like infinity on high!

Jake H gave it a10:
I was worried when they cranked another album out so quickly after Infinity On High, but it for sure beats out that album. I got this CD 7 months ago and I've never gotten tired of it.

Destinie S gave it a10:
Omg, this was such a good album,i LOVE fall out boy, especially Patrick Stump.

Suleiman M. gave it an8:
For the most part, Fall Out Boy Manages to create an enjoyable album.

Sophie gave it a10:
Absolutely incredible album i love it not one song i dont like incredible. amazing. top class.

Emilio V gave it a2:
All FOB music is extremely boring and this cd is not the exception.

Ricki gave it a4:
This is a very disappointing effort from the FOB gang for any of there long standing fans losing all remnants of there original sound as heard on take this to your grave and from under the cork tree. This album is for the mainstream and all about making them money.

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