This isn’t one of those albums you can dance to in your car. Its more simple and repetitive than the last album. When you think Panic! At the Disco the sound of this album is not what pops into your head. It sounds nothing like their 1^st record. I like how you can hear all the instruments, besides just a guitar, bass and drums. It’s a refreshing sound. I don’t know if I like the guitarist’s background vocals in it. I don’t feel his voice runs smoothly, the rest of the back ground vocals are good.  All in all I enjoyed the last album more, but I think this one is one of those records you need to hear more then once to love. I already have favorites like: “Nine in the Afternoon”, “We’re so Starving”, and “That Green Gentleman”.

Review of all the songs:

“We’re so Starving” is very up beat, like BAM!  perfect introduction to a cd.  “Nine in the Afternoon” is up beat, want to dance around your house to, one of those songs you want to smile to. I have heard this song so many times, but I still don’t get when Nine in the Afternoon is. “She’s a Handsome Women”, tongue in cheek. The long go ons are not needed in the song, it would sound better with out them. It’s interesting how there are birds in “Do You Know What I’m Seeing?”, wasn’t expecting them. This song draws you in with the deep vocals and the strings. I think “That Green Gentlemen” is good enough to be the second song let out of the album. It has a happy go lucky toe tapping beat. The lyrics are relatable for growing up. I picture “I Have Friends In Holy Spaces” to be turned on an old fashioned radio or flappers dancing around. “Northern Downpour” lyrics are symbolism I am guessing because out right they don’t make sense. It has an air of The Beatles in this song, like a mix of a “Day in the Life” and “Hey Jude”. When ever I heard “hey moon” I thought “hey Jude”. My first impression of “When the Day Met the Night” is that it sounds like a song you would smoke pot to in the middle of flower field, peace. Towards the end it gets more brassy.

For “Pas De Chavel” I wouldn’t think this song was misplaced if I heard it in a musical. This isn’t a diss against the song, its up beat and I can see an actor singing and dancing to it. “The Piano Knows Something I Don’t Know” sounds like it has church bells with a royal trumpeter. Very different mix of sound styles- Beatles from the 60’s mixed with a musical. I can not stand the vocals in “Behind the Sea”. Picture a rubber band being stretched and gently released and then in the last 30 seconds gets caught in a tornado. “Folkin’ Around” yeah like the title says there is a folk air about it. Cute and short. “She Had The World” there’s nothing too memorable about it. “From a Mountain in the Middle of a Cabin” intriguing title. The whistling and piano at the end were enjoyable. “Mad as Rabbits” is quirky with it’s lyrics, like “his arms were branches of  Christmas trees” .