Pretty. Odd.

“We’re still the same band,” sings Brendon Urie on opener “We’re So Starving”. That’s hard to believe as Panic! At the Disco shed the angst and emo of their debut *A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out* for a beatific trip into lysergic \'60s pop. “Nine In the Afternoon” exemplifies the immediate, sunny melodies, but the real pleasure emerges in repeated listens as you unpick the many layers of a record doused in strings, harmonies and relentless adventure.

In the two and a half years since its multi-platinum debut, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, threatened to eclipse the band—Fall Out Boy—whose bassist helped bring it to national attention, Panic At The Disco has done a lot more than strip the exclamation point from its name. In many ways, the PATD responsible for Pretty.…

As you may have already gathered from last week’s cover feature, the Panic At The Disco will be nothing compared to the Pandemonium In The Boardroom when ‘Pretty. Odd.’ reaches the ears of the accountants and A&R men at major label paymasters Atlantic.

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At a time when the indie world is furiously reviving ’60s pop, here’s a mainstream act trying to stay ahead of the game.

Panic! at the Disco - Pretty. Odd. review: ‘Pretty Odd’ indeed! Alternate album titles were ‘Very. Risky’, ‘Really. Different’, ‘Strangely. Experimental’ & ‘Unfortunate. Failure’. Oh & don’t forget ‘Wiggly. Beatles’!<script src=