Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen recording group Panic At The Disco has disclosed early details of its much-anticipated new album, entitled “PRETTY. ODD.” The album – which follows the band’s RIAA platinum-certified 2005 debut, “A FEVER YOU CAN’T SWEAT OUT” – will arrive in stores and online on March 25th.
The Las Vegas-based band will celebrate the release of “PRETTY. ODD.” by headlining the 8th annual Honda Civic Tour, slated to kick off on April 10th in San Francisco. In keeping with one of the Honda Civic Tour’s most exciting traditions, Panic At The Disco has designed a special, one-of-a-kind Honda Civic Hybrid to be showcased at each stop of the itinerary. Fans will have the opportunity throughout the tour to enter to win this green machine – which has been autographed by the band, making it the ultimate in HCT memorabilia. Full details – including a complete itinerary, artist line-up and on-sale information – will be announced in the coming weeks. Panic At The Disco will get ready for the Honda Civic Tour with a two-week European tour, set for late February and early March, with stops at arenas in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, and the Netherlands.
“PRETTY. ODD.” was recorded in Las Vegas’ Studio at the Palms, with additional production and mixing now underway at the world-renowned Abbey Road Studios in London. Produced by Grammy and Emmy Award-nominated arranger/composer Rob Mathes, the album sees Panic At The Disco embracing a melodic, classic rock-inspired aesthetic while still maintaining the visionary pop modernism that made its debut among the new millennium’s most popular and successful releases.
“It’s definitely different for us,” guitarist/lyricist Ryan Ross explained in the January issue of Alternative Press, “We’ve grown up a lot in these past few years and the different types of music we’ve been into will show through. We want to focus on the melody and what’s happening in the song rather than throwing a lot of distortion over everything.”
The album will be heralded by the first single, “Nine In The Afternoon,” which is slated to impact at radio outlets nationwide later this month and will go on sale digitally on January 29th. In addition, a companion video clip – directed by Shane Drake, who also helmed the band’s 2006 MTV Video Music Award-winning “Video of the Year,” “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” – will have its world premiere shortly.