.PanicAtTheDisco's 'Viva La Vengeance' is like a wild ride in a muscle car where someone’s constantly fiddling with the radio, forever chasing the high that comes with hearing the perfect riff at the perfect moment.
was a hypersyllabic, top-hat-clad emo-pop upstart in the mid-2000s, Brendon Urie has always been about the grand gesture. His project
, which began as a band with his childhood friends and has evolved into a solo venture, has trafficked in big moves, whether it’s following upor covering Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” in concert. Despite the of-the-moment trappings of Panic! songs like the speedy 2006 breakthrough single “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” and the relentlessly peppy 2018 cut “High Hopes”—not to mention his April 1987 birthdate—Urie’s showmanship and ability make him something of a throwback to the eras that have since been calcified as “classic rock.
sounds great, its piston-like licks and soaring solos acting like time machines to a rose-colored-glasses-refracted era. Urie is in reflective mode lyrically, although the outsized music can distract from just how pensive he gets .
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