By Elizabeth Ward, '08 |Staff Reporter

Fall Out Boy

Infinity on High

Release date February 6, 2007 

Fall Out Boy is back with just a few long titled songs two years after their last album, From Under the Cork Tree, their break through album which brought the band into the mainstream public. It featured some of the bands most popular songs such as “Dance Dance,” “Sugar We’re Going Down,” and “A Little Less Sixteen Candles A Little More, ‘Touch Me”. Fall Out Boy, the pop punk band from Chicago, releases their newest album Infinity on High.

“Thriller”, the first song, kick-starts the album off right with Jay Z opening the songs first verse. Vocalist Patrick Stump, picks up where Jay Z left off, and continues to deliver powerful lyrics with a catchy beat while Jay Z nicely closes.

“Golden” reveals a deeper side of the band as they mention their own faults and how hard life is in terms of it being “gold plated”. “Don’t You Know How I Think I Am,” reveals the band’s feelings on staying positive and being focused in life despite the easier route of giving up. Love is definitely an issue brought up in their tracks, as “The Carpal Tunnel of Love,” “Bang the Doldrums” and I’ve Got All This Ringing in My Ears, But Only One on My Finger,” as all three touch on the subject of the aches and pains of telling the truth and the downfall of love.

Fall Out Boy takes on a more serious tone in “You’re Crashing But You’re No Wave”. In it they’re describing the different emotions that people at a symbolic court trial feel.

Despite the band’s shorter titles, a few of the sounds seem to have been heard before either by this band or by another. As the album is played the songs seem to get more and more negative .Some typical expected band lyrics like “why did you leave” and “I’m so sorry” slip in here and there.

The lyrics on this album seem harder to interpret than those of their previous releases. Examples of harder interpretations are heard in at least three songs, where God is abstractly mentioned. And even though some of the songs that are being released as singles are catchy and upbeat, at the moment their newest album appears unlikely to have another hit like “Dance, Dance.”

This punk pop album has already been put under some scrutiny by fans and critics. The 14-track album delivers songs of all sorts with varying messages to their audience.