tboycrimes

Vessel is a difficult album to rate, considering the difference in quality between individual tracks. Ode To Sleep, Car Radio, Trees and Truce do not deserve to be on an album with this low of a rating, let alone the same album as Semi-Automatic. However, this is my overall rating for the album, start to finish, and the highest compliment I can give it as a complete package is that it's good. There are absolutely incredible songs here, songs that not only capture the pure emotional torment ... read more

I didn't want to hate this musical. Honestly, the concept sounds at the very least entertaining, and there are entertaining moments interspersed throughout this 57 minute and 14 second slog. Big Tree Religion is single-handedly the best thing I've ever heard in my life and incomprehensibly bad. The biggest issue with this musical is that it simultaneously feels like it takes five lifetimes to complete and that nothing happens. Well, that's not true. Things happen, most notably a ... read more

Listening to the first album a band produces is always an interesting experience. With Twenty One Pilots, it feels distinctly like watching the first season of a show like The Simpsons or Spongebob: you know that, technically, later entries are far better in quality, but there is a certain earnestness in the early years that can’t quite be found anywhere else. Stylistically, it’s a lot rougher and it’s obvious that the artist is still cutting their teeth, but there is so much ... read more