(Atlantic)Since Panic! at the Disco’s last album,2013’s Too Weird to Live, Too scarce to Die, or the former emo pin-ups have lost two band members,making this fifth LP a solo set by singer Brendon Urie in all but name. Perhaps he would have benefited from some outside assist for, as befits an album Urie has described as a cross between Queen and Frank Sinatra, and Death of a Bachelor is hollow and shapeless. Though operatic pop-punk is the dominant sound,here and there Urie affects a Vegas croon (the Radio 2-friendly title track; Impossible Year, in which he dissects an former relationship), or indicating a desire to reinvent himself as an edgy Michael Bublé. It’s unlikely to pay off.
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Source: theguardian.com