American Beauty/American Psycho

Personnel: Joe Trohman (guitar, lap steel guitar, keyboards, programming); Jake Sinclair (keyboards, percussion, programming, background vocals); Andrew Hurley (drums, percussion).Audio Mixer: Claudius Mittendorfer.Recording information: Infrasonic Studios; Nervous Breakdance Studios; The Rat Cave.Photographer: Pamela Littky.Returning to full-time status after the resurrection of 2013's Save Rock & Roll, Fall Out Boy quickly bashed out American Beauty/American Psycho, their sixth record and an album that definitively grapples with a host of percolating pop trends of the 2010s. Ever since they began to have hits in 2006, Fall Out Boy have taken great efforts to incorporate whatever was happening on the charts, an inclination that isn't quite as necessary in the great digital disassociation of the 2010s, yet this inclination does give American Beauty/American Psycho a bit of a kinetic kick. It also gives it a slight air of desperation, evident on the ham fisted "Immortals," a track t