Does anybody else feel like the inisistence that Ryan Ross and John Walker’s split from Panic! at The Disco was friendly is a blatant lie?

Both Panic! and Ryan and John’s new band The Young Veins recently released new songs who’s titles allude to band friction. Panic!’s ‘New Perspective’ is far more reiniscent of their debut effort than their last release, so this ‘New Perspective’ could be an attack at Ryan and John.

On the flipside The Young Veins’s ‘Change’ of Pretty. Odd. and laments ‘Some people never change’. Whether referring to his old bandmates or himself, it’s clear that all was not so accepting when Ryan handed in his P45.

But in the end the personal side of the band is secondary to the music, and both of these tunes are crackers. It’s unfortunate however that neither track quite lives up to what the band has previously written. Change is too vague to be engaging and New Perspective spends too long wallowing in a chorus that was written for radio-play and little else. Despite this both tracks are listenable and as far as first songs go, it could have been a lot worse.