A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
| Panic! at the Disco
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out is the debut studio album by American rock band Panic! at the Disco. Produced by Matt Squire, the album was released on September 27, 2005, on Decaydance and Fueled by Ramen. The group formed in Las Vegas in 2004 and began posting demos online, which caught the attention of Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz. Wentz signed the group to his own imprint label, Decaydance, without them having ever performed live.-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
The whining, the emotionally exposed lyrics, and the passionate choruses are there, but there's no sincerity, creativity, or originality.
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Rolling Stone
A rush of whirring electronics, orchestral flourishes and vaudeville camp, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out is more the Faint than the Faith, but it's difficult to argue that it's not a snapshot of where "emo" was at in 2005, right down to the sentence-long song titles.
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sputnik music
Gimmicky, whiny, repetitious & pretentious, this album is easy to dislike. Yet it succeeds as catchy pop music with something just a little bit different and very little filler.
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plugged in
An overnight success, this young, Las Vegas-based punk act pushes harsh profanity, sexual content, alcohol use and a glimpse into a hardened adult world you wouldn't expect recent high school grads to know so intimately. Their Fever gets progressively darker, angrier and more cynical, resulting in commentary as empty as its targets.
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DROWNED IN SOUND
What Panic! At The Disco have done, and cleverly, is steer clear of the carbon-copy format of their peers’ records – each of these tracks sounds remarkably creative within the narrow channels of the stream they’ve chosen to sail down.
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ALL MUSIC
This is a band in love with making a record -- making a statement -- but there's nothing unique inside, neither in their formula nor the vaunted and sticky production.
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TRUMAN MEDIA NETWORK
Decaydance and Fueled by Ramen released Panic! at the Disco’s A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out on Sept. 27, 2005. Group members Ryan Ross, Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith wrote lyrics that covered taboo topics like the sanctity of marriage, adultery, mental health, alcoholism and prostitution.
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POP MATTERS
What we have here is a record that is desperately reaching for an emo zenith by cramming so many typical emo quirks and tricks into itself that it is bursting with emo-ness. It's an embodiment of a genre instead of an artistic achievement. And that deserves its own misplaced! exclamation point.
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THE YOUNG FOLKS
Opening their debut is the track “Introduction”, which speaks for itself, as does “Intermission”, found near halfway into the album. It really indicates how different the group wanted to be, and gives a glimpse into the rest of the tracks with sounding like a radio tuning into the different channels, or in this case each song.
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7th Heaven
The sound of this album is superb. But it’s the lyrical content that truly bring this album into the realm of great albums.
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music OMH
The rest of the world has been chuckling at emo for far too long, but this album is sure to silence a lot of those laughs.
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Louder
Originality becomes harder and harder as time goes on. That’s a fact of life when the foundations of rock music have been laid down over the course of 50 years plus but in 2005, Panic! At The Disco struck upon a sound that was totally unique and that captured the hearts and minds of young rock fans.
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THOUGHT POLLUTION
It’s smart, well-sequenced and unapologetic. For all its faults and artistic whims, it runs with with such wide-eyed ferocity that it’s hard not to see why they graced the cover of Rolling Stone and why they were infinitely better than their peers – like All American Rejects and The Academy Is… – that you long ago deleted with Windows Media Player and Rhapsody.
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THE EDGE
I think musically is where this album truly stands alone. With interesting instrumental lines weaving in and out of each other, and clever use of vaudevillian piano and synthesisers, there’s truly intelligent musical writing.
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IT'S ALL DEAD
A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out is a miraculous album
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MUSIC UNLABELED
This album was a rock opera, plain and simple, but with different elements than stereotypical rock bands and stereotypical rock operas.
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CITY PAGES
It's a spine-seizing, anxiety-addled mix of bubbly punk, spry harmonies, pulsating new wave, and hard dance-pop that embraces the spotlight rather than running from it.
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THE SKINNY
There's something endearingly infectious about this album, like that friend of a friend you're a bit ambivalent about, but the more they hang around, the more you like them.
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FANVASION
While A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out is a creative masterpiece, it unfortunately seems to end shortly after it begins as the 13-track album can be heard in its entirety in under forty minutes, with each track on the album lasting under four minutes in duration. Despite its few shortcoming, this is an excellent debut album from a band that comes off as both personal and vastly original.
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CATSICKBLOG
When it comes to the epitome of emo, look no further than A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out. The song titles are a story in themselves, and this album is a performance you won’t forget.
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brainwavez
This is an album that defies convention, skips genre boundaries (it was hard to classify for this review), and is full of contrasts and unexpected surprises that keep the listener engaged and interested.
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