4 years ago MCR took the full-throttle approach as far as possible with their highly pretentious concept album, which drew influences from Green Day, Queen and Broadway. Even Liza Minelli took part in one of those songs. ‘The Black Parade’ converted MCR into recognizable international rock stars, but to repeat the trick would have left them open to the accusation of re-treading soured grapes. They needed to move forward and fortunately Gerard Way and his bandmates were too shrewd to go for the same formula. Danger Days: The True Lives Of Fabulous Killjoys might disappoint all those who expected MCR to stick to black mascara, dark colours and goth expressions, but it’s a breath taking experience. It looks like a comic book from the outside- it’s colourful, dynamic and direct in approach. It’s like a movie about superheroes. Transformers, Hulk, Spiderman, you name it. MCR fans that once wore the much-discussed uniforms, now are called The Killjoys Army- they are glamorous, futuristic and arrogant. Musically MCR are more uplifting now (‘Na, Na, Na’) and bombastic (‘Sing’). In the same time ‘Danger Days’ sounds very English- whether it’s because of the influence of old TV series like ‘The Prisoner’ or because the band just cannot stop shamelessly paying tribute to the one and only Brian May, it’s still unclear. Despite the lack of the one bass player Bob Bryer, the New Jersey gang has accomplished the goal to create exciting music to overflow the big arenas next summer. That’s a lot nowadays. MCR are like The Who for the Facebook generation and they recharge their powers from the perfect batteries-their fans. Unfortunately these important for the current music situation tendencies pass Bulgaria big time. And there’s a reason for that, only it’s a subject of another story.