Twenty One Pilots Scaled and Icy
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StickFeit
May 24th 2021


2316 Comments


Wait what? Sowing, you having a laugh? Trench is the only good thing about this band. Excluding this one cause I haven’t figured this one out yet.

tyman128
Staff Reviewer
May 24th 2021


4620 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

thanks Jesper! and yeah, idk what it is but I've always enjoyed Trench more than Blurryface and I don't exactly know why (but I still love Blurryface so..)

Sowing
Moderator
May 24th 2021


44593 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Nah lol I legit think Blurryface is the best of their 3 recent records. I haven't listened to Vessels any time recently enough to weigh in on that one, and never heard anything prior to that. But Blurryface was sort of an introduction to the band for me, so maybe that's part of the reason why? Trench seemed so boring to me, no hooks I can recall. I do remember there being a particularly great scream on one of the first few tracks, but that's it.

tyman128
Staff Reviewer
May 24th 2021


4620 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Sowing, you definitely need to check out their first album, think you'd like that one for sure

Sowing
Moderator
May 24th 2021


44593 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

I will try to for sure. It's always been on the fringe of my radar/"to listen" list.

sempiturtle
May 24th 2021


1685 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I don't understand yall who didn't like Trench. Feels miles about everything else they've done in just about everything... production quality, songwriting maturity, cohesiveness as a project and concept, etc.

Sowing
Moderator
May 24th 2021


44593 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

https://youtu.be/5oiI4lBW8kY

Project
May 24th 2021


5903 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

it's wild to me that people think Trenches is more mature and cohesive when it literally has a song about owning a cheetah named Jason Statham



what I love about twenty one pilots is the genre grab bag, their heart-on-sleeve sincerity, and stupid choruses that they make work by sheer earnestness. Trenches felt like the band forcing themselves into something they're not -- it just lacked that manic energy. I think Jumpsuit is one of the band's best songs, and Levitate and Neon Gravestones are very good tracks, but the rest of the album can't hold a candle to Blurryface/Vessel. And the new album feels like they've smoothed out all the dynamic peaks and valleys into a flatline.

ExtinguishingTheSun
May 24th 2021


369 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I'm not really grasping the critiques presented in this thread

The quirkiness is scaled back (ha) but this record is still dynamic as hell

Project
May 24th 2021


5903 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

I do not hear that at all, the dynamic range is tiny compared to Trench, let alone Blurryface/Vessel

Fathm
May 24th 2021


19 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Trench is absolutely their best album, but I have to say I'm glad that they went for such a huge change in sound from Trench to this. Yeah, Scaled and Icy is worse but it was never going to be as good as Trench and it was always going to be compared to it so I think it was a good move to go for something completely different. Plus honestly after the last two years the world doesn't need another kind of grim and dark album

Feather
May 24th 2021


10607 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

I didn't realize people like Trench, thought their career fell off a cliff with that one. I assume it must have actually done pretty well.

tyman128
Staff Reviewer
May 24th 2021


4620 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I'm biased because I've been a fan of this group for quite some time, but Trench was my favorite for a while (but then I dove into the debut more and fell in love with that one)

BlushfulHippocrene
Staff Reviewer
May 25th 2021


4053 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

I need to revisit Trench, but this is the most I've enjoyed TOP in a long while.

Cormano
May 25th 2021


4261 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

lmao the lenghts some fans on youtube will go to justify this thing being crappy saying it's supposed to be satirical

BlushfulHippocrene
Staff Reviewer
May 25th 2021


4053 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Oh God, the DAMN. defence. I like this, though; who'da thought Pop Band Doing Pop could work so well.

tyman128
Staff Reviewer
May 25th 2021


4620 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

“ lmao the lenghts some fans on youtube will go to justify this thing being crappy saying it's supposed to be satirical“

gotta love the clique trying to force their music into a timeline story context

Sinternet
Contributing Reviewer
May 25th 2021


26782 Comments


band should have quit after recording holding onto you, pretty much everything since has been pish

Dwap
May 25th 2021


411 Comments


Gross

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
May 25th 2021


26758 Comments


Their first is best yeah, Blurryface is likely their weakest



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