Twenty One Pilots - Clancy (and the saga of Trench)
What if all you knew was that the new Twenty One Pilots album Clancy was the 4th and final album of a large story? You don't read wikis or fan forums or watch music videos or really know more than a few songs, enough to get the gist of the band and their love of genre hopping. Could you piece together any sort of coherent plot just by listening to all 4 albums? I have my doubts. Having said that, I love these guys, and I'm willing to trudge through 6 records worth of deep textual/image analysis to at the very least figure out what is or isn't understandable. I mean, it can't be nearly as difficult as Coheed & Cambria. I've read the comics and I still can't figure out which level of inception most of their songs take place in. Blurryface and Trench and a dragon and Clancy can't possibly be that obtuse. Sure, it might take a while, and I might go crazy in the process, but it's all specifically Tyler Joseph working through his own millennial angst in a ...