Album Of The Day: Scaled & Icy by Twenty One Pilots

Album Art of Twenty One Pilots's Scaled And Icy album - On a bright pink background, a drawing of a light blue dragon is the focus, with the dragon filling most of the frame. The dragon has yellow eyes and yellow smoke coming from his mouth and nostrils. In the top right, there's a vertically tall oval with a three-tonged fork icon on it in black.

Released 5 years ago last Thursday, this is the sixth studio album from pop/rock/rap duo Twenty One Pilots. While most of their last 4-5 albums are more industrial, rap/rock sounds set in a dystopian world, this seems to be a reprieve from that storyline. Scaled & Icy is also musically more pop as well as less intense and seems to be the band going for a more positive, mainstream sound. Fans of the band will still like it, I think, but it's definitely a bit of a departure musically. Around the time this came out, I listened to "Saturday" and "Shy Away" a lot, but I haven't found myself listening to this album as much recently. But on this listen today, there's still some solid songs and great vibes on this album. I've kinda lost interest in TOP in the last few years with their more recent albums, but this one is still fun to listen to.

Release Year: 2021
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