The band to release their seventh studio album M A N I  A this Autumn.

If you haven’t heard Fall Out Boy‘s new single Young And Menace, have you been living under a rock since April 27th? The heavily electronic laden track is more reminiscent of Skrillex or Knife Party than it is anything they’ve released previously, a questionable venture from the immortal emo kings of the mid 2000s.

Fall Out Boy have an undeniable presence in both the pop and rock worlds, a feat difficult to achieve, and Young And Menace drifts more towards the pop demographic but with a message, as Pete Wentz explains:

There’s a lyric in the song, ‘trying to send the world a message, I was young and a menace,’ that reminded me of growing up in the suburbs of Chicago. I didn’t look like anyone there or feel like anyone – I felt like an outsider in my own town. It wasn’t until I discovered punk rock and that community that I realized I did fit in somewhere in this word – with the other people who didn’t fit in. It’s hard to rationalize rage – it’s hard to quantify anxiety… this song does neither. It embraces the wave of those emotions.

Young And Menace is the first single to be released from their upcoming album M A N I  A, which is the long awaited follow-up to the platinum-certified American Beauty/American Psycho.

Wentz says of the video:

The concept is the idea of a movie like Elf, where he realizes maybe he isn’t an elf after all, but ours has less comedic elements and more real world implication. She realizes that maybe she is human after all – but maybe the line between us and monsters is blurrier than we think…

M A N I  A is set for release on September 15th via Virgin EMI UK/DCD2 Records.

Fall Out Boy already have a mammoth US tour lined up from October onwards. In addition, $1 of every ticket of the tour will go towards the band’s newly launched Fall Out Boy Fund which will support a number of charities in the Chicago area.