The lead single, “Saturday,” is, on its surface, a roller-rink-ready slice of electro-disco, although it has a minor-key moodiness and lyrics that hint at a particularly post-pandemic type of anxiety - ”Lose my sense a time or two/ Weeks feel like days,” Joseph sings. Since breaking through in 2015 with the adulthood-wary anthem “Stressed Out,” which blended a reggae-inspired riddim, wistful yet self-lacerating lyrics, an insistent chorus, and a vocal that hung in the space between dancehall toast and sullen-teen sneer, the pair have welded together outcast-beloved songs into gleaming anthems for dashed romantics and lifelong cynics alike.Įarlier this year the duo released “Scaled and Icy,” which adds some synthpop sheen and a bit of period-appropriate paranoia to its ever-evolving playlist.

“Alternative rock” has been an oddly catch-all term for much of the last decade, but if one act summed up what’s turned into its grab-bag idea, it’s the duo of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun, who make up the mega-selling Ohio act Twenty One Pilots.

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