Things I Love: Panic at the Disco's "Pretty. Odd."
So, I really loved Panic's first album, "Fever You Can't Sweat Out". It was poppy, it was punky... it wasn't serious at all. It was just good, fun music.
With that said, I'm not sure why it took me so long to buy their sophomore album. Maybe it was because I hadn't heard anything (good OR bad) about it. No tracks played on the radio. It just kind of... released itself, then slipped into obscurity.
Thanks to a Barnes and Noble gift card for Christmas, I decided to take the plunge and buy the album. How bad could it be, right?
"Pretty. Odd." is AWESOME. I love it. It's everything I wish the new Fall Out Boy CD had been. They've dropped the exclamation point in their name, but they're still the same fun-loving band. One thing I can say for them, they are not afraid to make fun of themselves. Musically speaking, the album is quite a departure from their first release. The music is dreamier, most of the punk-edge glossed over and instead relying on a quieter sound. It's pretty apparent from the get-go that they are somewhat "poking fun" at the Beatles, and their own musical departure "Sgt. Pepper". I'm not quite sure how to describe the sound, other than eclectic. Country flavor? Ok. Something baroque, perhaps? Sure! And the lyrics are at times pretty purposely ridiculous, like: "Clouds are marching along, singing a song, just like they do. If the clouds were singing a song, I'd sing along, wouldn't you too?"
The album just works really well as a whole, from start to finish. I highly recommend it!
With that said, I'm not sure why it took me so long to buy their sophomore album. Maybe it was because I hadn't heard anything (good OR bad) about it. No tracks played on the radio. It just kind of... released itself, then slipped into obscurity.
Thanks to a Barnes and Noble gift card for Christmas, I decided to take the plunge and buy the album. How bad could it be, right?
"Pretty. Odd." is AWESOME. I love it. It's everything I wish the new Fall Out Boy CD had been. They've dropped the exclamation point in their name, but they're still the same fun-loving band. One thing I can say for them, they are not afraid to make fun of themselves. Musically speaking, the album is quite a departure from their first release. The music is dreamier, most of the punk-edge glossed over and instead relying on a quieter sound. It's pretty apparent from the get-go that they are somewhat "poking fun" at the Beatles, and their own musical departure "Sgt. Pepper". I'm not quite sure how to describe the sound, other than eclectic. Country flavor? Ok. Something baroque, perhaps? Sure! And the lyrics are at times pretty purposely ridiculous, like: "Clouds are marching along, singing a song, just like they do. If the clouds were singing a song, I'd sing along, wouldn't you too?"
The album just works really well as a whole, from start to finish. I highly recommend it!