Panic At The Disco New Album
Panic At The Disco – Pray For The Wicked album, Over the last decade, Panic! Have taken on numerous guises: the cabaret pop-punk starlets (2005’s ‘A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out’, lysergic Beatles enthusiasts (2008’s ‘Pretty.
Demos of what should have been the band's second LP have been found
Panic! At The Disco‘s former bassist has said that he’s unearthed unreleased music from the band’s early days.
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The Brendon Urie-fronted group released their latest studio album, ‘Pray For The Wicked’, in June. In a four-star review, NME said: “Urie brings buckets of sass and drama to his theatrical, glamorous sixth album under the guise of Panic!”
Now, the band’s ex-bassist Jon Walker has claimed to have discovered what should have been PATD’s second record.
“My dad just found a CD with 3 Cricket & Clover demos if anyone was wondering,” the musician tweeted, before tagging his former bandmates in the post.
In a follow-up tweet, Walker described the lost album’s material as “weird and dense and beautiful and pre-weed”.
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Hinting that fans may get to hear the tracks in the future, Walker added: “I hope someone gets the ok to post them.”
The following day, Walker said that his father-in-law had also found “11 more post-cabin, pre-pretty odd demos, and 3 pretty odd demos (nine, things have changed, do you know).”
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‘Cricket And Clover’ was meant to follow the band’s debut LP ‘A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out’. It was scrapped as the sound of Panic! changed direction – resulting in the release of ‘Pretty. Odd.’. The album saw the group move away from their pop-punk sound to explore psychedelic rock influences.
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Panic At The Disco New Album
Meanwhile, Panic! At The Disco recently confirmed the departure of touring guitarist Kenny Harris, after he faced sexual misconduct allegations.
In August, Panic! announced details of a UK and European arena tour, scheduled to take place in March next year. Find any remaining tickets here and see the full schedule below.
Panic! At The Disco will play:
Offenbach, Stadthalle (March 14)
Berlin, Columbiahalle (15)
Dusseldorf, Mitsubishi Electric Halle (16)
Amsterdam, AFAS Live (18)
Paris, Zenith (19)
Antwerp, Lotto Arena (21)
Glasgow, SSE Hydro (24)
Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena (25)
Birmingham, Arena Birmingham (26)
London, The O2 (28)
Manchester, Arena (30)
Pray For The Wicked by Panic! at the Disco
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Panic! At The Disco’ frontman Brendon Urie is one of the most irrepressible characters in music, and nothing sums that up better than new album Pray For the Wicked; the follow-up to the band’s first number one album, 2016’s Death Of A Bachelor.
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Panic! have never released the same album twice, but on Pray For The Wicked it feels as if they’ve finally managed to channel that frenetic, slightly chaotic attitude into a studio album that is at once eclectic and coherent.
The album opens with two previously released singles: “(F**k a) Silver Lining” and “Say Amen (Saturday Night)”; each with a very different mood. “Silver Lining” is like a grown-up version of Veruca Salt’s tantrum “I Want It Now” from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory; whether Urie is the greedy child or sceptical candy man is debatable, and either works.
Meanwhile “Say Amen” features one of Urie’s strongest vocal performances to date, thanks in most part to that ludicrous high note (he undertook breathing training for his role in musical Kinky Boots) as the song reaches its climax; a note that seems so impossible that it is explained in the accompanying music video with a kick to the groin.
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“Dancing’s Not A Crime” is a joyful, uplifting pop song that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Robbie Williams Best Of. Indeed, Urie, an unabashed fan of Williams, recalls the former Take That frontman’s swagger and bounding energy on the resplendent chorus, backed by a fantastic brass band. There are plenty of self-deprecating jabs at his eccentric character (“can’t take me anywhere”) but also his urge to just let loose and have fun, and not give a s**t about what anyone else thinks.
Urie – who grew up in the City of Sin (Las Vegas) and moved as an adult to the City of Angels (Las Angeles) – spoke recently in an interview withThe Independent about how his Mormon upbringing instilled an inherent sense of guilt over anything that might be considered the slightest bit “bad” (“the first time I swore, I thought God was going to hit me with a lightning bolt”). But he doesn’t shy away from his background on Pray For The Wicked. Rather, he embraces it, and melds it with his experience of living in LA and astute observations of all its contradictions and hypocrisies, plus a general tone of hedonistic glee that listeners are encouraged to join in on.
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On “Roaring 20s” Urie makes references to Broadway and adopts a theatrical delivery and a New Orleans-style swing that harks back to his stint in Kinky Boots – or the baroque style pop from earlier albums – while “One Of The Drunks” is distinctly electro-pop; “Old Fashioned” starts out with a hip-hop beat before dropping into more of a Latin American influence with a fantastic, raspy sax. Throughout the album there is a distinct Oliver Twist vibe of rags-to-riches, despite the odds: the single “High Hopes” speaks of “Shootin’ for the stars when I couldn’t make a killin’/Didn’t have a dime but I always had a vision” while “King Of The Clouds” is a psychedelic '...Mr Kite' trip to the heavens: “Some only live to die, I’m alive to fly higher.”
Finally, “Dying In LA”, a standout song on the album, is a subtle piano ballad that Urie wrote with American actress and singer Morgan Kibby; here he abandons the bolshie instrumentation and opts instead for sweeping, cinematic strings and stark, emotive vocal work. On Death Of A Bachelor, closing track “House Of Memories” felt slightly misplaced and oddly produced. “Dying In LA” atones for that with subtle, deft touches and a poignant, lingering final note that drifts out into the sound of birds. Pray For The Wicked is as sinfully good as anything Panic! have done before, so we might as well indulge.