What's The Story?
Well, you've heard Panic. They famously had a great, punk-poppy first album, and then like countless others, had a sophomore flop. Then, 2 members left the band in 2009, and they're now a two-piece. Hurricane is from their third album & first with the new lineup, Vices & Virtues.
Who's To Blame?
...It's something about a pond in my bathroom?
Why ♥ It?
One of the things that appealed to me most about Panic's first album was how often they'd borrow a snippet of another genre into their own music. Lots of string sections, occasional electronic bursts, etc. Hurricane does this in the form of a disco-ball bass that demands center stage. The whole track is lit up by this sound, and by the many crowd sounding vocals. It feels like being in a particularly wild nightclub.
Fans of Panic's radio-ready choruses will find a home here, also. Although that happening bass is still busy funking it up, the rest of the chorus could be any other pop-punk song, as well as the you'll dance to anything hook-bridges that pop up a few times.
I still haven't figured out what it is about two-piece rock groups in the last few years that make them so excellent, but Panic At The Disco are a more-than-welcome addition to the bandwagon.
