Album review: twenty one pilots – Clancy

‘If you really want to know what I’m thinking,’ Tyler Joseph reveals, nine songs into Clancy. ​‘Kind of feels like everybody leaves / Feeling the reality that everybody leaves…’ This is a line taken from Navigating. It’s one of the best songs twenty one pilots have ever written. But it also sums the Columbus, Ohio superstars’ seventh album perfectly. For the past 15 years, Tyler has used music to present sensitive deep-dives into his enduring experiences with mental health. From candid early battles (‘You think twice about your life / It probably happens at night, right?’ he asks on beloved early hit Holding On To You) to emphatic messages of strength in the face of the darkest of thoughts (‘In time I will leave the city / For now, I will stay alive,’ goes 2018’s Leave ...

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