After three years off from their last studio album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die, the vaudevillian rock band Panic! At The Disco has kicked open the door with gold-sequined clothing and a full theatrical number in tow that could only be their fifth album, Death of a Bachelor.

Since its release on Jan. 15, the new album has been at the top of the charts all around the world. What sets Death of a Bachelor apart from the other P!ATD albums is the underlying tone in each song that demonstrates the end and beginning of the band’s musical career and sound. Brendon Urie, the frontman and last original member of the band, produced and recorded all eleven tracks of the album almost entirely by himself.

Urie has mentioned that the inspiration for the new album is both his hero Frank Sinatra and his marriage to his wife Sarah in 2013. Both the title of the album, Death of a Bachelor, and the lyrics within each song allude to the end of Urie’s single and past life and the introduction to a new kind of Panic!. While the  songs on the new album do not match the sound of those of Sinatra’s, the writing was inspired by the legendary singer and expresses the end of an era and an appreciation for the future which is shown in songs like “Golden Days” and “House Of Memories.”

Death of Bachelor also indicates a compromise between Panic! At The Disco’s beginning theatrical Las Vegas roots found in their first album and their adaption to the carefree, party-frenzy Los Angeles that has become Urie’s new home for quite some time. The vaudevillian sound is sprinkled throughout the album but can mostly be heard in songs like “Death Of A Bachelor” and “Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time.”

As Urie has stated in past interviews, most of the songs, including the one the album was named for, were written and sung while Urie was playing the piano, completely stripped of all the drama and fast paced sounds. Afterwards, he added all the bells and whistles and created an album that could be either the soundtrack to an on-stage musical or the anthem for the classic L.A. lifestyle. Lyrics like “Sunsets on the evil eye/ Invisible to the Hollywood shrine/Always on the hunt for a little more time/ Just another LA Devotee,” induce the desire to go to out and roam the streets of the City of Angels and throw all your troubles out the car window as the breeze runs through your hair (“LA Devotee”).

Panic! At The Disco’s fifth album is likely to generate more success than Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die because of the difference in sound between the two albums. Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die was synth-heavy and dark, contrasting the cheeky melodies of the other albums that were reintroduced in Death Of A Bachelor. In the last album, Urie took a more mellow approach with his voice and songs but such is not the case with Death Of A Bachelor because of all the powerful and high notes he continues to hit with perfection.

The new album ultimately proves that Urie’s win of Best Vocalist at the first annual Alternative Press Music Awards in 2014 (during the recording of this album) was justified. Panic! At The Disco’s comeback is essentially heightened with Death Of A Bachelor and sends a clear message to the fans: “The death of a bachelor/ seems so fitting/ for a happily ever after” (“Death of a Bachelor”).