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Fall Out Boy release vinyl records filled with their own tears

By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 2 May 2023

Fall Out Boy have announced a limited edition vinyl release of their latest album ‘So Much (For) Stardust’ filled with the band’s own tears “for maximum emotional fidelity”.

“Music is more than just soundwaves”, says a website set up for Crynyl – the fictional company behind the release. “It’s passion, struggle and emotion. That’s why we developed a new kind of record: one that contains the artists’ actual tears. When you listen to a Crynyl release, you’re not just listening to what the artist played, you’re feeling what they felt”.

Limited to just 50 copies, the record is already sold out. Still, despite the short run, it would still take a lot of crying by the band’s four members to fill that much hollow vinyl. So, as the website explains, those gathered have been diluted into a “sonically-optimised solution”. A promo video adds that there is “only minimal risk for the user”. Good to know.

The album sleeve also houses a box of tissues, to mop up your own inevitable tears when you play the record.

The band’s Pete Wentz teased the project in March, posting an Instagram reel in which he tried various methods of making himself cry before preparing a vial of what he managed to collect to be shipped off to “the factory”.

If you’re wondering now where the idea of bands sealing their bodily fluids in vinyl will end up, well, maybe don’t think about that. Also, you’re forgetting that earlier this year punk band Private Function released the “world’s first piss-filled record”. Easier to collect than tears, but nonetheless also limited to 50 copies, the records were filled with the band’s own urine.

As noted, Fall Out Boy’s ‘crynyl’ quickly sold out, but the band announced on Twitter last night that they had kept hold of a few copies and would be sharing information on how fans could get hold of one in the near future.