You may not have heard of Twenty One Pilots but these two lads from Ohio are kinda a big deal across the drink and have been around longer than most people realize. They dropped their self-titled debut in 2009, and since then they’ve gradually ascended in popularity. It wasn’t until 2012’s Vessel that they really got on most people’s radar, and a lot of that had to do with them signing to Fueled By Ramen, which marked their first experience on a major labe

If you like your music with a bang of hip-hop, reggae, indie, soaring pop melodies and shiny punk then Blurryface, the second album from US duo, Twenty One Pilots is the one for you this week.

The album jumps between hip-hop, rock, pop, and even reggae as if genre boundaries don’t exist. Tyler Joseph alternates between rapping, singing, and screaming like they’re all the same, and he even alludes to the idea on the curtain-opening ‘Heavydirtysoul’ when he states “this is not rap, this is not hip-hop / just another attempt to make the voices stop.” 

This album has soared to number 1 across the way and it's easy to these old ears to see why. It's refreshing to see a couple of lads at least try and experiment with various genres and whilst they can spread themselves a bit thin across the fourteen racks, there is more than enough here to make Blurryface fly!

Here's standout track 'Goner'