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AS TWENTY ONE PILOTS WIND UP THEIR BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM ‘BLURRYFACE’, IT’S IMPORTANT TO LOOK BACK AND APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THE DUO HAVE ACHIEVED, AND WHAT MAKES THEM SPECIAL.
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t’s been two years since Twenty One Pilots released ‘Blurryface’ and they’re ending the chapter the same way they started it. Live. With a handful of increasingly bigger shows in their native Columbus’ booked in for June, Tyler and Josh are set to bring the curtain down on their most impactful album to date. It’s strange to think that when the band released ‘Blurryface’, their headline show
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at London’s Brixton Academy looked like a stretch. A fingers-crossed, let’s hope for the best, leap of faith. It’s a trial by fire that many bands take. For most, it represents a pinnacle. For Twenty One Pilots, it was a footnote in their ascension. Since then, the band have broken out in every way imaginable. There’ve been festival performances that have stolen weekends worth of excitement, TV appearances that have forced reactions and they’ve even made a dent in Hollywood, with ‘Heathens’ the
best thing to come out of Suicide Squad. They’ve won an actual Grammy, become genuine arena sensations all around the world, and even your mum has probably heard ‘Stressed Out’. Years from now, ‘Blurryface’ will be one of those albums: talked about with reverence, held with a gloved hand and seen as a launch pad for a generational change. Right now though, in the shadow of its overwhelming reach, Twenty One Pilots are more touchable. Their music, human. To this day, it