MANIA

Mania (stylized as M A N I A and formally titled Mania: A Fall Out Boy LP) is the seventh studio album by Fall Out Boy, released on January 19, 2018, by Island Records and DCD2 as the follow-up to the band's 2015 album American Beauty/American Psycho.

During the extensive touring in support of American Beauty/American Psycho (2015), the group began writing and recording material for a seventh album. The beginning of the production process for Mania began after the band's frontman Patrick Stump introduced the song "Young and Menace" to bass guitarist Pete Wentz at Reading and Leeds Festival in 2016, which inspired the musicians to record a full-length. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Wentz described the vision behind Mania. "It feels like every once in awhile, you've gotta do a hard restart that clears the cache and erases the hard drive. I think that's what was – a big palette cleanse," said band member Pete Wentz.

Mania was originally scheduled for a worldwide release on September 15, 2017. However, on August 3, 2017, after the release of the album's first two singles, "Young and Menace" and "Champion", frontman Patrick Stump announced that the record would be pushed back until January 19, 2018. "The album just really isn't ready, and it felt very rushed," Stump said on Twitter. "I'm never going to put a record out I genuinely don't believe is at least as strong or valid as the one that came before it and in order to do that we need a little bit more time to properly and carefully record solid performances."

Mania was produced by Jonny Coffer, Illangelo, Dave Sardy, Jesse Shatkin, and longtime collaborator Butch Walker, as well as self-production from the band. The album sees the group further departing from pop punk and alternative rock sound and having a more "experimental" approach to their newfound electro-pop sound. The album was preceded by five singles; "Young and Menace", "Champion", "The Last of the Real Ones", "Hold Me Tight or Don't", and "Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)".

Upon the album release, Mania received largely mixed reviews from music critics, but fared well commercially, debuting at number-one on the US Billboard 200. However, it is the band's first album since their debut studio album, Take This to Your Grave (2003), to not produce a Billboard Hot 100 single on the chart. The album was nominated for the category of Best Rock Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.