Poster boys for all things emo, the New Jersey quartet were always too smart to die with that particular trend. The key is singer Gerard Way's other life as comic book author: he's adept at imagining alternative worlds for excitable teenage fans. So out goes the cancer-themed rock opera of 2006's multi-million-selling Black Parade and in comes some silliness about renegades fighting an evil corporation. The music is just as bubblegum. Despite Way's shouty vocal – delivered with the jutting bottom lip of someone refusing to tidy his room – this is radio-friendly rock that's never far from the chorus.