Vices & Virtues

Vices & Virtues is the third full-length studio album from Panic! at the Disco. It was released on March 18, 2011 under Fueled By Ramen and Decaydance Records. The album was produced and mixed by music engineers Butch Walker and John Feldmann. The album peaked at number seven on the Billboard 200 albums chart and number five on the Billboard Digital Albums chart. The lead single off the album, "The Ballad of Mona Lisa", was released on February 1, 2011. The single peaked at number 84 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The second single off the album, titled "Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind)", was released on June 6, 2011. It peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart.

The album has a different sound than their previous two studio album releases A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (2005) and Pretty. Odd. (2008). That is because two group members had left, and because of the amount of time between the releases of Vices and Pretty. Odd. The album has elements from the band's debut album. It has heavy use of synthesizers and guitars. The track "Mona Lisa" returns to the idea of the band's first single "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies", which had heavier guitar and rock influences.

The song "Let's Kill Tonight" was released in the United Kingdom for the band's 2012 Spring Vices & Virtues Tour. A music video was uploaded on February 10, 2012 on the Fueled By Ramen official YouTube channel with a minute and ten seconds of the band performing the song live in London.

Release
Vices & Virtues was released March 22, 2011 in the United States, Brazil, and Canada. It was released on other dates in other countries. The record debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200 albums chart, with first-week sales of 56,000 copies in the United States. This is very different from the group's previous effort, Pretty. Odd., which debuted without much commercial attention in 2008, with first-week sales of 139,000. The album also came in at #2 on Neilson SoundScan Alternative Albums chart and #5 on the Digital Albums ranking.

Track listing

 "The Ballad of Mona Lisa"
 "Let's Kill Tonight"
 "Hurricane"
 "Memories"
 "Trade Mistakes"
 "Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind)"
 "Always"
 "The Calendar"
 "Sarah Smiles"
 "Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met...)"
 "New Perspective" (bonus track from the soundtrack of the 2009 horror film Jennifer's Body)

Bonus tracks

 "Oh Glory" (demo version)
 "Stall Me"
 "I Wanna Be Free"
 "Bittersweet"
 "Turn Off The Lights"
 "Kaleidoscope Eyes"
 "The Ballad of Mona Lisa" (radio edit)

References

Category:2011 albums
Category:Panic! at the Disco albums