Monday, January 30, 2006
The Next Big Thing: Axis of Emo
Fall Out Boy emerged from the legion of punks playing melodic music with Take This To Your Grave in 2003. Great day in the morning! Has it been that long?
Well, what a difference two years, and the endorsement of Seth Cohen can make. I mean, for a band that was named after an obscure character on The Simpsons, (the sidekick of Bart’s favorite comic book hero, Radioactive Man, to be specific) Fall Out Boy’s first album, 2003’s breezy Take This to Your Grave, sold like hotcakes (mmmmmm…hotcakes), but it took The OC to finally land these guys on the pop culture map. Now, after an upgrade to a major label and a concise but glowing recommendation from Newsweek, I think it's safe to say they're done flying under the radar.
The lesson this four-piece from Chicago carries over from its smart-aleck predecessors, such as Blink 182, is that they avoid taking themselves very seriously for the span of more than one song, which allows their cleverness to shine through. Me? I like that in a band.
If you're a fan of Jimmy Eat World and New Found Glory (i.e. infectious, heart-on-the-sleeve-style rock, and if you're reading this, I'm guessing you are) you'll love Fallout Boy. No lie. Despite the somber deduction that, “the poets are just kids who didn’t make it,” Fallout Boy has arrived, proving that not all incisive lyricists slip through the cracks.
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