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If Twenty One Pilots is a band about fighting depression, why'd Scaled and Icy depress me? Jokes aside, I really don't like this album. It was the project that made me fall out of love with this band and in that sense I should thank it for forcing me to expand my music taste but that doesn't change the fact it sucks. It's just so generic and sanitized compared to everything that came before it, including Blurryface and sure there's a "lore reason" for that but ... read more

Well this is it. This is the band's magnum opus. Trench holds a pretty dear place in my heart as it was the first album I ever listened to from front to back. Even after I fell out of love with TOP's music overall, I still kept this one close to the chest. Nearly every issue they've had in their discography leading up to this was ironed out. Unlike previous albums, the writing rarely ever feels too heavy handed or awkward. The mixture of genres from the other albums finally paid ... read more

No... just no. Blurryface is the exact opposite direction I wanted this band to go after the lessons learned in Vessel. The album has seen a lot of hate, especially from music nerds on the internet but damn it's pretty much entirely warranted. There are multiple tracks on here on how the mainstream music industry sucks and everything is fake, only for the album to sound about as mainstream as a Chainsmokers project. The electronic influences are terrible on this album, couple that with ... read more

Vessel is an improvement over pretty much everything within TOP's self titled project (and Regional at Best but we don't talk about that one). The songs do a much better job of standing apart from each other and the lyric writing abilities of Tyler Joseph have seen a noticeable upgrade if not still a little corny at times. I noticed an interesting theme within the track list though, being how much of it is written with a juxtaposition at the focus. This more often than not leads to ... read more