The glammy, gloomy band’s 2006 opus The Black Parade was nearly the emo American Idiot. They never took to being that genre’s sweethearts, though, so this is a clean break: synthed-up anthems suited for the car, not the coffin. Trouble is, they were better at Alice Cooper excess, and the album’s concept — cartoon band battles evil corporation — never coheres. There’s no there there, emotional or otherwise. B–
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