Claude says:By 2016, Panic! at the Disco had become a pure Brendon Urie solo vehicle — he wrote, recorded, and played nearly every instrument on Death of a Bachelor in a home studio, mixing Sinatra-style grandeur with Queen-sized ambition after Spencer Smith's exit and Dallon Weekes' demotion to touring duty. It debuted at number one, went double platinum, and earned a Grammy nod for Best Rock Album. You grabbed it two years after release and ran straight to the big theatrical cuts — "Victorious," "Emperor's New Clothes," "LA Devotee" — then kept circling back through 2019 and beyond, leaning hardest on "House of Memories" and the title track's lounge-pop swing.