With 2016 just beginning, Brendon Urie dropped his fifth studio album, “Death of a Bachelor.”

This album is Panic! At the Disco’s first album without longtime drummer Spencer Smith since his departure from the band in early 2015. His absence is very apparent on this album as front man Urie uses his broad vocal range to do all the singing on the album. Despite this though, the quality of Death of a Bachelor is on par with every other album Panic! At the Disco has put out in their over decade long journey.

Coming off their more electric pop-centric album “Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!,” his album brings a larger variety of styles calling back to albums like Pretty. Odd. and Vices and Virtues. These many musical flavors complement Urie’s wide vocal range; from his baritone ballads like

“Impossible Year” to the big band styled “Crazy=Genius” and Panic’s bread and butter, pop-punk singles like “Victorious” and “Hallelujah”

“Death of a Bachelor” tells an intricate story with each song. Some stories are more debaucherous like “Don’t Threaten Me With a Good Time”, detailing the morning after a party everyone’s had. But some stories like “Impossible Year” shows off Brendon Urie lyrical talent in describing how you feel when the world turns it back on you with a song that is so easy to sympathize with.

Each track hits you hard with emotions stemming from layers and layers of instruments ranging from the basic guitars riffs and drum rolls of an earlier era to an orchestra of horns, pianos mixed with modern drum machines. And it’s with these emotions and stories that leads you to play the album over and over again.