matteperegrine

While Twenty One Pilots gets a lot of flack from general audiences because of the Blurryface/Heathens era, Trench all but confirms how misunderstood the duo truly are. With the help of Paul Meany's deep, grungy production, the band bring out their most in-depth and emotional songwriting to date. To add to this, the song concepts and overarching themes of rebellion help give the main character (and the music) a more human feel.

While there's some general highlights and fine polishing throughout, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum is too inconsistent with its all-over-the-place ideas that seem like they're trying to be random, songwriting and instrumentation that at times seems too derivative of the artists that inspired Tally Hall, and its uninteresting execution of its most "out there" ideas.

While I understand people's distaste for Scaled and Icy, to me it's an interesting listen because it's the only time Twenty One Pilots has had such a fun, upbeat sound, which I think works because they've already learned how to write songs that are both catchy and refreshing.

After listening to the first two singles for EXPERIMENTAL RAP, I couldn't tell if I had changed, or if JPEG changed. As it turns out, It was Peggy. The production of the instrumentals is so dynamic with each section of each song that it feels like SCARING THE HOES is bursting with color at every seam. Danny Brown's rapping is zany and catchy like usual, and JPEG's talking his shit like usual.