The band's debut studio album, "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" has been descirbed as pop punk, emo, emo pop, electropunk, dance-punk, baroque pop, and alternative rock. Panic! at the Disco went on record many times saying that the group's second album would be completely different from "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out", as "Rolling Stone" wrote in an article: "The group cemented its next direction with their first single, called "Nine in the Afternoon." "It's influenced by the music our parents listened to: the Beach Boys, the Kinks, the Beatles," says Ross. "Our new songs are more like classic rock than modern rock. We got older and started listening to different music – and this seems like the natural thing to do right now." "Pretty. Odd." has been described as being like "[Panic dropping the entire Beatles catalog into a blender, adding some modern alternative ice and the horn section from Sonia Dada, then churning out a new-millennium Liverpool smoothie." In his review of the band's live album, Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted, "..."Pretty. Odd." suggests that they're becoming that rare thing in 2008: a pop-oriented rock band. They might not be doing this knowingly, but the results are entertaining all the same."