Panic! At the Disco - 2018 - Pray For The Wicked (HDtracks) [[email protected]]
Artist: Panic! At the Disco
Title: Pray For The Wicked (HDtracks)
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Producer: Jake Sinclair
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Label: DCD2/Fueled By Ramen
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock
Duration: 34:17
Panic! At the Disco:
Wikipedia:
Panic! at the Disco is an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, formed in 2004 by childhood friends Brendon Urie, Ryan Ross, Spencer Smith and Brent Wilson. Since 2015, vocalist Urie is the only official member in the band, supported on tours by guitarist Kenneth Harris, drummer Dan Pawlovich, and bassist Nicole Row. Panic! at the Disco recorded its first demos while its members were in high school. Shortly after, the band recorded and released its debut studio album, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (2005). Popularized by the second single, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", the album was certified double platinum in the US. In 2006, founding bassist Brent Wilson was fired from the band during an extensive world tour and subsequently replaced by Jon Walker.
Influenced by 1960s rock bands the Beatles, the Zombies and the Beach Boys, and preceded by the single "Nine in the Afternoon", the band's second studio album, Pretty. Odd. (2008) marked a significant departure from the sound of the band's debut. Ross and Walker, who favored the band's new direction, departed because Urie and Smith wanted to make further changes to the band's style. The duo subsequently formed a new band, The Young Veins, leaving Urie and Smith as the sole remaining members of Panic! at the Disco.
Continuing as a duo, Urie and Smith released a new single, "New Perspective", and recruited bassist Dallon Weekes and guitarist Ian Crawford as touring musicians for live performances. Weekes was later inducted into the band's lineup as a full-time member in 2010. The band's third studio album, Vices & Virtues (2011), was recorded solely by Urie and Smith in 2010, produced by John Feldmann and Butch Walker.
As a three-piece, Urie, Smith, and Weekes recorded and released the band's fourth studio album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, in 2013. Prior to the release of the album, Smith unofficially left the band due to health and drug-related issues, leaving Urie and Weekes as the remaining members. The duo recruited guitarist Kenneth Harris and drummer Dan Pawlovich as touring musicians for live performances.
In 2015, Smith officially left the band after not performing live with the band since his departure in 2013. Shortly thereafter, Weekes reverted to being a touring member once again, leaving Urie as the only member of the official lineup. In April 2015, "Hallelujah" was released as the first single from Panic! at the Disco's fifth studio album, Death of a Bachelor (2016). In December 2017, Weekes officially announced his departure from the band. The band's sixth studio album, Pray for the Wicked, was released on June 22, 2018.
Pray For The Wicked:
Wikipedia:
Pray for the Wicked is the sixth studio album by American rock band Panic! at the Disco. The album was released on June 22, 2018. on Fueled by Ramen and DCD2. It is the follow-up to the band's fifth studio album, Death of a Bachelor (2016).
NME Review by Dannii Leivers:
Brendon Urie brings buckets of sass and drama to his theatrical, glamorous sixth album under the guise of Panic! At The Disco
Who would have thought that, of all the mid-noughties scenesters with serrated-fringes and smeared eyeliner, Panic! At The Disco frontman Brendon Urie would emerge as emo’s true eccentric and master of reinvention?
Over the last decade, Panic! have taken on various guises: the cabaret pop-punk starlets (2005’s ‘A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out’, lysergic Beatles enthusiasts (2008’s ‘Pretty. Odd’) and pop-rock synth-wielders (2013’s ‘Too Weird to Live, Too Rare To Die!’), while shedding members like they were going out of fashion. By 2016, the band had been reduced to a Brendon Urie solo project. Naturally, he celebrated his newfound freedom by assuming the role of a lavish casino-hopper on the bizarre, jazz-addled EDM of fifth album, ‘Death Of A Bachelor’.
He’s retained that persona and anything-goes attitude on ‘Pray For The Wicked’. Label mate Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz described the record as “’Death Of A Bachelor’ [Urie’s glam 2015 album] on steroids”, and that’s about right. The sounds here are zanier, basking in the neon glare of the Vegas Strip, as though Urie has bunged the gigantic hooks of modern pop – think Dua, Kehlani and Cardi B – in a cocktail shaker with old school swing and jazz, throwing back to the hedonistic age of Prohibition. It comes together brilliantly on opener ‘(Fuck A) Silver Lining’, which blare out of the blocks like a blow-outs from the album before, all extravagant Great Gatsby pool parties, parping horns and cascading champagne martinis.
Beneath the sparkling gusto, though, this isn’t another party album. Thematically, it’s less absorbed in the high life; rather, it focuses on the difficult journey to get there. On ‘High Hopes’, Urie revisits the days when he would yearn for stardom in front of his bedroom mirror. “Didn’t know how but I always had a feeling I was gonna be that one in a million,” he croons amid gleaming brass and fluttering trap beats. Elsewhere, on the glitzy ‘Say Amen (Saturday Night)’, he digs into the realities of following a dream at direct odds with his Mormon upbringing, howling, “Swear to God I ain’t never gonna repent.”
The album was written immediately after Brendon’s recent stint in the Broadway musical ‘Kinky Boots’, and while it’s fair to say he’s always had a flair for theatrics, the experience has injected these tracks with unprecedented levels of sass and drama. Urie is clearly still relishing the role of the sonic bachelor, and it shows. On ‘Pray…’, it sounds like he’s having a total blast.
Tracklist:
01. (Fuck A) Silver Lining - 2:48
02. Say Amen (Saturday Night) - 3:09
03. Hey Look Ma, I Made It - 2:49
04. High Hopes - 3:10
05. Roaring 20s - 3:06
06. Dancing's Not a Crime - 3:39
07. One of the Drunks - 3:18
08. The Overpass - 2:57
09. King of the Clouds - 2:40
10. Old Fashioned - 2:46
11. Dying in LA - 3:49
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