Panic! At The Disco have ditched the neon buzz of Las Vegas and have retreated to the Nevada mountains to work on the follow-up to their debut album 'A Fever You Can't Sweat Out'.
"We didn't want to be at our houses because there's a lot of distractions," drummer Spencer Smith tells Kerrang!. "We're about 45 minutes outside of Las Vegas. Here in the mountains, there's not much to do except play music all the time!
"Ryan [Ross, guitarist] had been writing lyrics on his own up until a couple of weeks ago," he adds. "Then we got up there and all started writing songs for the first time in a couple of years."
After enjoying mainstream success and critical acclaim, Smith admits that the band are feeling a pinch of pressure to come up with the goods for their follow-up to the million-selling debut.
"We had so much success so quickly, so there are some expectations," he says. "But we have high expectations for ourselves anyway. For us, just trying to write 13 or 14 songs that we're all happy with is kind of difficult, because we'll write something and then throw so much away. It really takes a long time for us to be happy with anything!"
Although no firm plans have been made, Smith reveals that they may go into the studio with Rob Mathis, who worked with the band on 'This Is Halloween', their contribution to 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' soundtrack which was released last October.
"He helped us arrange all the strings and all the orchestral parts on the track," Smith explains. "We really got on well with him, but at the moment, we're not 100 per cent sure."
The band's new single 'Build God, Then We'll Talk' is out now through Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen.
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