Album Info

A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

Alternative - 2005

But a few years out of high school when they recorded this slyly sophisticated debut, PAD initially casts a familiar... more

Tracklist

1

Introduction

0:36 min
2

The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage

2:54 min
3

London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines

3:23 min
4

Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks

3:23 min
5

Camisado

3:11 min
6

Time to Dance

3:22 min
7

Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off

3:20 min
8

Intermission

2:35 min
9

But It's Better If You Do

3:25 min
10

I Write Sins Not Tragedies

3:06 min
11

I Constantly Thank God for Esteban

3:30 min
12

There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet

3:16 min
13

Build God, Then We'll Talk

3:40 min

About A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

But a few years out of high school when they recorded this slyly sophisticated debut, PAD initially casts a familiar punk-pop spell (guitarist Ryan Ross and drummer Spencer Smith once toiled in a Vegas-based Blink 182 cover band), typified by the emo-core-on-steroids urgency of singer Brendan Urie on the snarky stand-out "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage." But the band quickly dispels notions of the formulaic with the nervy "London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines, " then busts the envelope of expectations wide open with the prog-meets-punk ethos of "Camisado," the Queen-channeling "Intermission" and the grand, genre-bending conceits of "But Its Better If You Do" and "Build God, Then We'll Talk." The band and producer Mint Squire may use the sonic trappings of contemporary musical fashion as lure, but they quickly transform them into something far more original, ambitious and intriguing.