Panic At The Disco - Pretty. Odd

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Release Date: March 24 2008
Label: Fueled By Ramen
Rating: (9)

By now you will have heard that this album is weird. Panic At The Disco’s departure from the sound that made them famous has been dissected both loudly and often by a largely bemused media struggling to understand the musical evolution of four scene kids who began life covering Blink-182 and Fall Out Boy songs. Well, Rock Sound can confirm that what you have been hearing is true. This album is weird. Well and truly. Gone are the electronic flourishes, emo meets techno stylistics and digital recording and in their place comes uncompressed guitars, classic British pop influence and analogue tracking. Yes, this record does sounds a lot like Panic At The Disco raping and pillaging The Beatles back catalogue, but it also sounds good. Possibly even great. Potentially incredible. ‘Nine In The Afternoon’ is total ear candy, ‘That Green Gentleman’ is ridiculously bombastic and ‘Northern Downpour’, whilst lacking the immediacy of other tracks on the record is undoubtedly the most important song the band has ever written. Truly golden. No one knows quite how they have done it, no one knows quite why they wanted to do it but no one can deny that Panic At The Disco have made a baffling, bold and brilliant second record.
FOR FANS OF: The Beatles, The Small Faces

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