This album came out in 2006. I really liked their previous album, but had never heard much from this album other than Welcome to the Black Parade back when this album came out.
Fast forward to 2016. My daughter was only 2 when this album first came out, but she recently discovered MCR and loves this album. She turned me onto it, and now I'm hooked, 10 years later.
It has the characteristic pop punk sound of the stuff that was coming out at the time (Yellowcard, Story of the Year, etc.), but with more glam rock influence via the singer's love of Bowie, etc., and the guitar player's love of hair metal guitar like Randy Rhoads. The result of all these influences gives this concept album a very classic sound, with a song like "House of Wolves" sounding like KISS's "Detroit Rock City" meets anything from Green Day's "Dookie". "Cancer" sounds like a Motley Crue or GnR ballad meets Jimmy Eat World.
But they never sound like they're purposely trying to incorporate disparate influences...... the songs are effortlessly very MCR. It's a great album, quite possibly one of the best albums of the 2000s (to me, anyway..... "best" is such a stupid term when taste is so personal.)
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