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My Chemical Romance “Planetary (GO!)”

I’ll be very honest with you: I definitely never anticipated loving a My Chemical Romance record this much, but then again, I also never thought they’d be the band who’d try to make Andrew W.K. seem sluggish and morose. “Planetary (GO!)” is a super-concentrated shot of thrill power, totally overwhelming in its barrage of gleeful, hyperactive hooks. You don’t get a second to breathe. It’s like — POGO! POGO FASTER! DON’T STOP POGOING OR THE ENTIRE MULTIVERSE WILL EXPLODE!!! It’s not exactly a surprise that Grant Morrison turns up in the video for this album’s lead single. My Chemical Romance are clearly taking cues from his most energetic and surreal works of superhero fiction, aiming for an absurd, goofy extreme of modern pop-rock merged with over-the-top comic book mythologies and the stylistic excesses of J-Pop and trippy children’s television. Most of the time, they totally nail it. This is something worth freaking out about.

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