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TWENTY ONE PILOTS – BREACH – ALBUM REVIEW
Ten years ago Twenty One Pilots released their fourth studio album, ‘Blurryface’. The band who had achieved moderate success to that point, suddenly solidified themselves at the top of the industry with an album that captured imaginations, won hearts and beckoned a new era of creativity for the duo.
Since then singer Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun have lived and breathed the overarching story told across their following albums, ‘Trench’, ‘Scaled and Icy’ and ‘Clancy’. Now though after ten years, a fifth album, ‘Breach’ allegedly brings an end to these conceptually intertwined releases.
Sure to elicit mixed emotions from fans, this series has become entrenched within the bands identity so it will be sad for some to move on. Equally there will be those excited to hear what the band create next.
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In the meantime, though there is this new album, ‘Breach’, to get our heads around. After another teasing series of easter eggs sent fans into a frenzy, the band dropped lead single, ‘The Contract’ at the start of summer and recently followed it up with ‘Drum Show’ (which happens to be the first to feature lead vocals from Dun).
Both of these singles are standout moments on the album, but in pretty typical Twenty One Pilots fashion are just the tip of the iceberg. The forty-seven minute, thirteen track collection is sonically explorative and lyrically ambitious with plenty of callbacks and nods to the series as a whole.
Indeed, if this is actually to be the end of this concept, the album in its entirety and the finale of ‘Intentions’ feel very well crafted. Given the success that this series has provided the band, you’d think it would be hard to do the period justice but somehow on ‘Breach’ the duo have managed to do just that!
The question soon though will turn to the obvious – what comes next?
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