Great Music While High: Twenty One Pilots

Twenty One Pilots, despite the misnomer, consists of only two band members, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun. The inventing of genres has lead to Twenty One Pilots being lumped into the bizarre and newly birthed schizoid pop.

A marriage of spoken word harmonies, Vessel can no better be described than a bowl full of sugar-coated Fruit Loops poured into Eminem’s Recovery. You will not enjoy this album; you will simply be compulsively forced into playing it on repeat for days on end.

Joseph manages to animate your body using a melody of sharp and sudden breaks in lyrics, and then hushing a lullaby that inexplicably skyrockets and crashes. Piano and keyboard are never in short supply with the band’s songs, and often accompanied by a synthesizer and drums, which occasionally happen to be electronic. The duos contagious songs however, should never be thought to be light and meaningless.

Car Radio outwardly is a song about a car absent of its radio, but reveals silence makes room for introspection, starting will the obvious repercussions, “Cause somebody stole/My car radio/And now I just sit in silence,” and moving toward personal conclusions, “Faith is to be awake/And to be awake is for us to think/And for us to think is to be alive.” Depending on the song, the bands can be compared as a smash-up between a variety of artists, from Eyedea and Abilities to Two Door Cinema to Flobots. The diversity in each song makes Vessel perfect for any smoked aspirations.