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...Maybe music videos are still only marketing tools, after all.—Patrick R. ChestnutPanic! At the Disco“I Write Sins Not Tragedies”It’s impossible to watch the video for “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” by Panic! At the Disco, without a sense of déjà vu. That is, unless you have never seen My Chemical Romance’s “Helena.” Compare the two and you’ll see: same shit, different sacrament. Instead...
...Pittman & Co. keep their focus squarely on the fundamentals--the melodies, the harmonies, the dynamics--and that focus, ultimately, is what makes Panic such a successful and thoroughly enjoyable album. The vocal harmonies of Pittman and Lucy Brain--the two trade off as lead singers--are striking. Brain's voice in particular has a beautiful stand-out quality, shown off on the melancholy Without Your Love." Clean, melodious guitars carry the album, while piano, trumpet, and the use of unconventional time signatures (including, yes, 5/4,) create a sophisticated feel. (Pittman cites British folk rockers Fairport Convention as the single biggest...
...music, nothing can kill a band's image faster than trying too hard. Fortunately Young and Sexy has avoided that fate: The five-piece band from Vancouver already knows exactly what it does best. Its third full-length release, Panic When You Find It, is a technically superb, 60s-influenced pop-rock album--and doesn't pretend to be more. There is no overarching theme in the often dark lyrics that songwriter Paul Hixon Pittman says he "usually think[s] about a year later," long after he's written them. Pittman's favorite song on the disc, 5/4, was named...
...pole broke. "I don't even know what happened, I just know that all of a sudden I was kind of flapping with one arm," she said, laughing. "The next thing I knew, there were three racers in front of me. The worst thing I could have done was panic...
...tried, particularly est and meditation. "Something in that mixture of Eastern thinking and the human-potential movement clicked for me," says Hayes. "It was goofy ... But what I saw in what they did in there was the possibility of really pursuing this acceptance side." Accepting that his panic would happen allowed him to be able to distance himself from it. Hayes learned to be playful with his thoughts, to hold them lightly: You feel panicky? Or depressed? Or incompetent? "Thank your mind for that thought," he likes...