greetings, everynyan!!!

welcome to the third official galacticpiledriver review

today we will be discussing Clancy, the 2024 album from twenty one pilots

this 1 goes out to scarlett snyder who is one of the only people i know that shares with me a deep love for twenty one pilots

this review comes to you from an absolute clikkie (first time using that word in at least like 6 years). ever since i heard Stressed Out (which i think is not that great of a song by the way) i completely fell in love with twenty one pilots. Blurryface was probably the first album i listened to from beginning to end when i was like 10 and is still one of my favorites to this day. all that isn't even mentioning Vessel which is one of the greatest musical projects ever to be worked on by human hands, minimal glaze by the way. i also have a very very deep love for Trench, which i think is also a legendary record. that said, i only ever heard the singles for this record when it came out and haven't listened to it yet, so i'm glad i'm getting around to it. this is TØP's first release since Scaled and Icy, which was the tonal equivalent of careening off of a cliff. Clancy definitely feels like a course correction, i can definitely feel some of the songs from this record belonging on Trench, which is the record that sounds the most similar if you ask me (they literally call it the sequel to trench). we're back to darker, more psychological songs, which is a way more comfortable sound than the radio-chasing pop from Scaled and Icy. there were also a weird amount of self referential lore lyrics? not sure about that but for fans of the dema plotline (me me me me me) it wasn't so bad. it was definitely weirder than the lorebuilding of Trench which felt a lot more like an extension of the lyrics and themes rather than the focus. the strongest lyrics were definitely when Tyler was able to forget about any lore and was able to sing plainly about his emotional vulnerabilities. as i was listening to it, i was increasingly more and more confused by scarlett's absolute refusal to like a single song from this record. i genuinely was really enjoying it man this record RULES. there were a couple times where i got a whiff of Scaled and Icy but it wasn't really enough to derail the entire thing for me. one of my favorite songs from this 1 was Oldies Station, which felt like a loveletter to people that grew up listening to TØP (ME ME ME ME ME ME M) so that was a really nice feeling. overall it was a very sincere return to form.

as always, Josh Dun deserves extremely high praise for the drumming he provided on this record. he truly is the Satoru Gojo of drumming (no glaze). a lot of the enjoyment i got from this record came from the drums giving almost a backbone to each and every track (minus the craving ofc). special thanks to my absolute goat of goats Josh Dun. by the way the highlight of the TØP concert i went to was the part when he took off his shirt. omg who said that.

overall really really loved it i will be adding several tracks to my main playlist. thank you twenty one pilots for reminding me why i was ever so few so proud and so emotional.

.an introduction

Hello everyone! It’s been so long that I think it’s time for me to reintroduce myself all over again! I am Ashlie, she/her, 30 years old, and notoriously a spotty tumblr user, made worse over the years. ;_____; I’m a TS2 and TS4 player, though currently am playing only TS4 because I don’t have my desktop with me at the moment. I’m a more or less maxis match player who really hasn’t fully explored TS4 yet, so that’s what you’ll probably be seeing a lot of right now! Everything is tagged, though, for when my TS2 posts return. I am wcif friendly, too! I just ask that you don’t spam me with a bunch of them D: 

I’ve made some recolors in the past and hope to make more in the future butlol no promises