Album Of The Day: TOPxMM by Twenty One Pliots & Mutemath

Album Art of Twenty One Pilots and Mutemath's TOPxMM EP - The background is a dark, blurry photo of a few mixers, keyboards, and other electronic gear in a dark room. Around the edges is a red border. Above the image is printed what looks to be some sort of sound wave, and in the middle 'TOPxMM' in white. Towards the top there's a line two white dots, an 'x', then four black dots with a white outline. It then says in printed handwriting-style font the band name with 'The Mutemath Sessions'.

Released 9 years ago today as a free download and a YouTube video, this digital EP captured the musical duo performing 5 of their songs in a studio with the help of the band Mutemath. They start off with the song "Heathens" from The Suicide Squad soundtrack, and perform some of the best songs from their Blurryface album. The members of Mutemath provide guitar, effects, keyboards and much more to recreate much of the sounds Twenty One Pilots had put down in the studio, with some definite variations and extended jams in a few songs too. This was a complete surprise when it was released and it's probably my favorite recording from Twenty One Pilots, maybe at least partially because of my love of Mutemath, but primarily because these live arrangements are so energetic and dynamic.

Release Year: 2016
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