Even though Fall Out Boy have completed a few songs from their new fifth album, the boys don't feel even close to actually recording it. They might be forgiven, however, because despite the fact that we saw them here in Oz during September, they still haven't taken a break. Tours continue across America for "Infinity On High" and are scheduled at least until December. "We need a next breath in before we take the next breath out," lead singer Patrick Stump said. "I always think of that total cliche that a record is like a child or a pregnancy even. There is a point where you're just going to have a record, like, 'Oh! It's coming!' And we're not there yet. I don't even know how far along it is. First trimester, maybe." And to quash those quirky rumours, the album is not going to be a folk hoedown. "There was something that got misconstrued," Patrick said to sources on Tuesday. " ... Pete [Wentz] was saying something about folk music, and I was saying something about folk music ...We were kind of thinking about folk music lyrically, and I think a lot of people assumed that meant acoustic guitars, which it doesn't." They've also pooh-poohed the idea of "rap-rock", which some had speculated would influence the album after the band worked with Kanye West, and particularly after Patrick's near-perfect rendition of R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly" at a recent karaoke contest at Pete's bar, Angels & Kings. But no, and no again. "I don't know if that's really going to be an influence," Patrick laughed. "R. Kelly plays more basketball than he plays influence," guitarist Joe Trohman added playfully. With all these tantalising suggestions and innuendos, we can only be thankful that none of Pete's conversation topics about his limp girlfriend Ashlee Simpson have likewise been read into as suggesting a change in musical direction for the new album. Because the musical genre best suited to all his recent talk about Ashlee acting as his nurse when he broke his ankle, after jumping from a 10 foot stack of speakers at the Voodoo Musical Experience last month, would be pure violins. "When I'm being hard-headed and I don't want to elevate my leg, she says, 'No, put it on the pillow!" Pete was quoted as saying. "When I try to get in the shower by myself and am going to end up falling on the hotel room floor, she is good at stopping me." And if Fall Out Boy had even suggested releasing an album like Ashlee's last efforts, we would have preferred the polka any day.

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