Jordanjamz

I have made no secret over the past two years of reviewing albums that I love from Twenty One Pilots, but it goes even deeper than that. Without TOP I wouldn’t have met my wife. We instantly bonded in college over Vessel (2013) and Blurryface (2015) and even had one of the greatest experiences of our lives at one of their last small shows before rocketing to superstardom as we approached 2016. All of this to say, this band and what they’ve created will always hold a very special ... read more

First minute and a half goes hard. Unfortunately, the rest is a rather repetitive slog with too much auto tune

Attempts to channel OG LP sporadically work, but then beg the questions, “was OG Linkin Park all that good to begin with?”

Put the genius marketing campaign aside. This record is as raw and as honest and as haunting as anything you will hear from an artist as famous and with as wide of an audience as Halsey. Halsey is clearly unburdened with the weight of trying to write a smash hit and instead writes what at times feels like spoken word poetry, a scatter of miss matched thoughts and redefections on a decade in the spotlight and how much (if at all) it means when facing your own mortality.
Is it too long? Yes, but ... read more