Panic! at the Disco: Vices & Virtues – review

(Atlantic)After emerging as emo big hitters with 2005's platinum-selling A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, Panic at the Disco's 2008 album Pretty. Odd. saw them drop the exclamation mark in their name and switch to baroque classic rock. After the fans deserted – not in droves, but significant numbers – the band split in half. Now a duo, vocalist Brendon Urie and drummer Spencer Smith – with exclamation mark carefully restored – seem to be picking up where the debut left off, with a commercia...

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