Fall Out Boy will head out on the biggest headlining tour of their career next year, with stops including several massive U.S. baseball stadiums, and they’ve marked the announcement — which arrives in their 25th year as a band — with a fantastic, back-to-basics new single, “Aces.” “Keep the fire alive,” frontman Patrick Stump sings, fittingly enough, on the new track, “through trying times, through the slow decay and the rapid decline.” “Aces” ramps up the return to a live-band sound that began with 2023’s So Much (For) Stardust , from the tricky intro guitar riff played by Joe Trohman to drummer Andy Hurley’s rambunctious fills and blazing kick-drum work.

”It’s so cool to see the playing field leveled, where everybody can create in their bedroom on a laptop,” says bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz .…