Twenty One Pilots are finally back from their year long silence and what better than to break this silence with dropping two songs one of which has a video. These songs ‘Jumpsuit’ and ‘Nico and the Niners’ were released in early July. Only a month later the ‘Levate’ music video was released ending one story off of Twenty One Pilots 5th studio album Trench. October 5th(-ish), was the official release date for Trench and I honestly think it is one of the best albums that they have released. Trench still has their underlying message of suicide and how you need to fight it but the one song, ‘Neon Gravestones’ pokes fun and criticized the glorification of suicide. I believe two of the lines that really slaps this day and age are  “They say, ‘How could he go if he's got everything?; I'll mourn for a kid, but won't cry for a king’” and “And could it be; true that some could be tempted; To use this mistake as a form of aggression?; A form of succession?; A form of a weapon?; Thinking ‘I'll teach them’”. Tyler, lead singer of the band, sees the message that some TV shows about suicide, such as ‘13 Reasons Why’, as glorifying suicide and he wants people to know that this is not what the tv show industry should be promosting. He is happy that we are talking about it, he even says “Don't get me wrong, the rise in awareness; Is beating a stigma that no longer scares us” in the song but he sees how it is glorified. Through the whole song he never specifically states that the songs about suicide but going off the rest of their music one can assume what Tyler is talking about here.

The album also has the cute side with the song ‘Smithereens’ which many believe that it is a ‘Tear in My Heart’ part 2 just like ‘Levitate’ is a ‘Car Radio’ part 2 since ‘Smithereens’ say “You know I had to do one the record for her like this” with ‘her’ referencing Tyler’s wife Jenna which he married in 2015 and wrote ‘Tear in My Heart’ for on Twenty One Pilots hit album ‘Blurryface’ also in 2015. Everyone that watched Tyler’s interview with Beats1 in his home studio he talked about how Jenna is on this yacht next to him- which is in a little boat- encouraging him to do better and when he needs her she will welcome him on her boat.

At the end of the album we get to hear another song that must have been hard for Tyler to write since it is about his grandfather which just past away earlier this year in March. The song is called ‘Legend’ and it says how ‘Grandpa Joseph’ as the clique has been calling him, is and always will be a legend to him. What makes this sader is that Tyler’s Grandfather never got to hear the final product since he passed before the the final product was here. As you look at the lyrics you can guess that his grandfather had short term memory loss, or something similar to it, since Tyler states that he is sorry for not visiting but he was not sure how to take it when he did not recognize and remember Tyler yet Tyler reconside and knew him. The song ends with the lines “Then the day it happened, I recorded this last bit; I look forward to having lunch with you again” and when you hear it you can tell how much it affected him.

The very last song on the album is called ‘Leave the City’ which translates to leaving DEMA and being in Trench with the other Banditos which are lead by drummer Josh Dun. The chores says “They know it’s almost over” which one can guess that ‘they’ are the Bishops/Blurryface/Nico which live in DEMA and ‘it’ being the control that they have on Tyler. What helps come to this conclusion is the line “Why no one ever comes back; With details from beyond” because DEMA is this prison that people break out of and once they do they become a Bandito and when they realise how much better life is outside of DEMA they don't want to go back. Tyler also states that he needs a change of pace that everything is moving to fast but he knows that with breaking out of DEMA which has been his home for so long that he will not be alone in Trench with the faces of his friends, family and fans being there waiting for him, the Banditos. Because of this and those couple lines I described ‘they’ are now the Banditos when Tyler says, “They know; They know; What I mean”. I highly encourage checking out the band’s newest piece of music and telling us what you think!