Breathless as the owner of the car you’ve just stolen and unsettling as the first date who says I love you, Nate Slawson doesn’t push boundaries in Panic Attack, U.S.A., he warps them like a telekinetic Proteus.

In addition to dealing with nostalgia head-on, one of Panic Attack, U.S.A.’s strongest qualities is its appropriation of a seemingly immature teenage voice, and how it uses what could be a thin, reedy, irritating whine to gracefully address a number of “big” topics.

—BJ Love

–Gina Myers

PANIC ATTACK, USA "coalesces into a wrenching, convincing, and instructive portrayal of American manhood in the early twenty-first century." Or, according to Muddy Waters, "I'm a man."