i swear i've listened to every song in this playlist 10 times each

D is. Is awesome

This album is amazing! Even though many people say it’s one of the worse albums, I think this is one of my fav albums tbh, and there’s a reason it came after trench because SAI is a propaganda! Anyway, give it a try if you haven’t! Definitely 5/5

Btw guys this isnt from tylers and josh's perspective, this album didnt originate from trench its actually dema's perspective, i dont know much about the twenty one pilots dema and bandito thingie but i know this isnt tylers perspective

I love the outside Saturday and shy away!

JUST AMAZING!!!! 😆😆😆👻👻👻😽😽😽

Trench took awhile to grow on me, and this one does as well, No Chance is probably my favorite

I have been listening to there music since i was 2 which was 2013 and my favorite album is blurry face. This is pretty good could be better though GO TWENTY ON PILOTS!!!!

Wow. I dont have great words to say. I mean, its ok, not bad necessarily, but verrryyy different. Way to happy and i feel like they are trying to satisfy the people who think they are to depressing. There are a few good one, like choker and Saturday and the outside. No chances wold be one if they didn’t add the part “ we got people on our way we want you home in one piece now” thing just completely ruined it would’ve been a good song. How a bout a sequel to trench and blurryface would be great.

Love this album

These albums somehow seem to mirror my life. Thank you for making music that makes me feel heard.

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One thing I love about this band is that no two albums are the same. This one is no exception. Scaled and Icy was a shock at first but after going through the songs, I can honestly say it’s a pretty amazing album. The production quality is insane, the lyrics are catchy, and it keeps me entertained. I really wish it wasn’t as short, but given the circumstances of when this album was released, i totally understand why it was designed this way. Can’t wait to hear more from one of my favorite bands!

Everything they make is awesome! Love this album. It’s so happy and upbeat!

I just like the old songs better but I need to grow up because this is pretty good (lol) also APPARENTLY… their songs get way better at the last couple and how they used to be like.

Very different from their earlier albums but just as amazing!!!!

It’s really good

I have been listening to twenty one pilots for a while now and liked all their other albums and when I first listened to this I didn’t like it. YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE WHOLE THING!! Then you like it 👍

21 pilots is just the BEST band out there and this album is one of their best

Great Job👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

keep the good music coming!

They used to be good. I don’t know what happened. Such a disappointment

Hi twenty one pilots you sent me some stuff for my bday on July 30 and OMG I LOVE IT THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH LOL LOVE YOUR MUSIC

Coming from Trench to this is just so disappointing. The generic feel of this album is crushing to a fan like me. From the dark electronic beats of Blurryface, the more acoustic sound of Trench, to this high gloss and bubblegum pop. Generic songwriting and songs that sound like I’m flipping through pop radio stations isn’t what I want. I’m sorry I’ve been a huge fan since 2015 and have listened to every song Twenty Øne Piløts have made. This is by far their worst. Choker is the only decent song on this thing normally I would say No Chances since it’s so much like Trench and Blurryface, but the chorus ruins it. Vessel has a song like that called Ode to Sleep so why do I like that song so much because it keeps the same energy when going into the chorus No Chances just dies and drags itself during that chorus and how generic all this songwriting is from one of the best song writers is just sad.

This album is amazing. Gave me Regional at Best vibes.

Shy away is so good I admit it is not as good as heathens or stressed out but common give them some credit where credit due

This album is amazing I’ve always loved their more upbeat and weirder songs feels very Level of Concern and Vessel I love it

Very solid but really short and left a lot to be desired. Been a hardcore fan for 6 years. Listen to this Album everyday but Im just not connected to it like Trench.

Such a different album for the duo. In this case different is perfect. Every listen the album gets better and better.

I've loved TØP for a long time, and I have never been disappointed in their music. The complex and deep lyrics, the subtle yet undeniable notes that suicide is bad, there is another way. While we don't see as much of that in this album, that's because we're not supposed too. Allow me to put it this way: SAI came after Trench for a reason. The two are related. And if that is too confusing, maybe this will clear it up: 'Dema don't control us' (Nico and the Niners) is not a true statement anymore. That's right, Scaled and Icy is supposed to be the boys through Dema's eyes, so it's supposed to sound like them but also NOT sound like them. If you look throughout the videos you'll see hints and Easter Eggs.

Take another look, and if I'm off, then I'll Bounce, Bounce, Bounce Man.

The only people that are mad about this album are the ones that want TWP to make the same album over and over again. This album has some dark songs but also has happy songs as well. Honestly didn’t like the album at first but the more I listen to it the more I like it!

This album is much lighter than the previous two. While I loved Trench and Blurryface, it’s nice to take a break and listen to some more upbeat stuff from them. All three of the singles, Shy Away, Choker, and Saturday, are really good. Some other standouts are The Outside and Formidable, but every track on the album is good.

This album definitely gets me up and dancing!!!

I’ve waited weeks from when they said it would be available. It says it’s not available in my country or region but I live in North Carolina. Why the heck is it taking so long for it to get to North Carolina. All the songs say purchased, one song can be fully played. I’m frustrated.

Next Album! Next Album! Next Album!

Keep it up, guys.

This album is easily my favorite out of all the 21 Pilots’ albums. Everything is just so upbeat and gives off such positive vibes for me. I’m listening to “Mulberry Street” as I type this and it’s one of the best from the album in my opinion. Dolby Atmos only makes it even better! Definitely worth the buy if you don’t have Apple Music…

This is album is a lot more upbeat and optimistic sounding than their other ones. Given the theories around why it sounds like that within the world they have created through their albums, it makes a lot of sense. It is such a refreshing new sound. The context of the album in their world-building gives it a bittersweet sense. It’s been a while since I’ve wanted to listen to an entire album (by anyone) over and over again.

Good stuff fellas. Truly. Cheers. Take care.

i have been listening since about 2014 and i absolutely love this new album. (PS; redecorate is best played when on full volume)

Inspirational lyrics, uplifting music. The live stream and this album are the best new alternative music. Change is inevitable and necessary. Listen to this album and be transported to greatness.

I am done with Haters!!!

This album is art there is so much emotion in between the lines and hidden between the catchy tune it’s crazy no song is simple there’s so many layers it almost scare these people are awesome don’t listen to the I used to love em haters these song have so much soul and storyline

Every song is great but Formidable is by far and away my favorite track on this album. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

I love this album and I can listen to it all the way through, but it's missing what they had in their last 3 albums. Trench, Blurryface, and Vessal has poetry, meaning, storytelling and such RICH beats that fullfil my mind to this day. The stories are what I remember and relate to. Trench is by far the best, best best album of theirs. The Scaled and Icy album is fantastic. The beat in each song is very nice, the vibe is there, but it's missing what they poured into their past albums: A story of a war, a man, love, battles with the devil, battles with ones self. Stories of doubt, lonelyness, and much much more I can't even comprehend. It's beautiful, it's a story of stories that I love. Scaled and Icy is missing depth. It has more of a pop genre then the rock/rap/alternative before although it's scattered in this album. Good album this is, but GREAT album this is? It's inbetween. It's there. I love this album, they did a great job.

There are some good songs but this album doesn’t sound like them. Blurryface was the best album they released so far.

This entire album is amazing. Redecorate, mulberry street and never take it are definitely my favorites!

And for all of you haters, just STOP.

TØP is always changing their style and if you don’t like it then its your fault for

not liking whatever style it is. 🔱

Trench was way better. Already looking forward to what comes next.

This album was purposely made, and it’s amazing from top to bottom. These guys are generational song writing talent, they can do no wrong.

Don’t listen to the vapid “I use to love them” reviewers. This album is more upbeat than Trench, and that’s largely because Tyler is in a better place in his personal life. He’s happily married with a beautiful kid. No one should stay hardcore emo forever.

As some other reviewers have mentioned, the livestream concert did a fabulous job of presenting these new songs and meshing them with previous albums.

If it’s time for you to part ways with TOP because they’ve found some bliss, Dema wishes you well.

I mean I didn’t add any songs bc it’s just now the “top” I used to listen to back then with them screaming in my ears blaring it so everyone around me can hear it but I miss it when they wrote sad songs about dying and making me want to cry myself to sleep every single night

Clancy is ALIVE!

I THINK

So many people are just writing theories on here I wanted to join in 🙈

Omg yes I love this album. Redecorate and The Outside are bomb. Don’t listen to the haters this album is fantastic✨✨✨

Why does everyone get so mad that “It doesn’t sound like the old stuff?” Listen up people, every band needs change. Do you literally want them to give you the same music over and over again? That sounds kind of boring.

Been listening since 2013, Trench was my favorite album, by far. I have mixed feelings about this one.

Don’t trust a song that’s flawless...

Okay.

So most people who are writing reviews for this album seem to either

1. Not have seen the livestream performance that accompanied this album and or

2. Not understood the deeper storyline here.

THIS IS A SATYRICAL ALBUM.

This album literally was announced through the DEMA ORG website in an incredibly cryptic way, there have been hidden messages like the fact the album name is an anagram for “Clancy Is Dead” (if you know Trench lore, you know who Clancy is) as well as standing for “Scaled Back and Isolated” which is a term Tyler coined for the pandemic. Also a hidden message in the image of their Christmas single that is a present in the background that says “SAI is propaganda - Clancy”.

Yes it doesn’t ‘sound like them’ because it’s supposed to be Tyler and Josh through the brainwashed lense of DEMA. This is SUPPOSED to not sound like them. But this is still twenty one pilots. Here is why:

At first listen, most of us would assume this is much more ‘bubblegum pop happy’ than any of their other work - and indeed it’s meant to be taken that way at surface level, but listen to it closer. There is heart in here - the lyrics are actually very deep, touching on being happy to please others/conform to society standards and the existentialism of death (Good Day, Mulberry Street, Choker) as well as police brutality, the corruption of the government and the political divide (Never Take It, No Chances, Redecorate) to fast culture, deportation and racism (Bounce Man, The Outside).

Redecorate on it’s own is a phenomenal song - I was incredibly impressed by this track, it shook me to my core. Tyler sings about 3 different people with 3 different stories but all the same pain of dying and leaving everything behind. The song is based on the idea of a parent losing a child and leaving their room exactly as it was - “keep it on display, or redecorate”.

This song absolutely touches on classism and murder, I even take it as an LGBT song about wether to present yourself authentically or change in order to be safer.

That is the fun thing about good art, you can make it into your own.

No Chances may seem kind of cocky and surface level, but this song also speaks on police brutality and death. It’s a direct reference to the bishops of DEMA as well as the prison system.

I think most of us probably would have listened to this body of work, not knowing the fact that there is a specific flavor to this album.

We probably expected it to sound like Blurryface or Trench, we wanted Tyler to flat out be screaming about pain and depression. But this is still here, it’s just hidden. It’s woven into the pastel colored fabric of this work. You just gotta search for it.

Plus lemme mention the fact that he (Tyler) as an artist has grown a lot over the years. He is a father now, so that means he is automatically writing with a different purpose than his younger self. Tyler is still here, and he is still feeling and struggling and contemplating existence as he always is, it’s just in a different way than we are used to hearing from him. It’s perhaps the most complex he has ever spoken about these issues.

If Blurryface was writing about hard topics from a character and Trench was an expansion of that character into a full environment about being oppressed and controlled by government (as well as the mind/thoughts) then Scaled and Icy is retelling that story the way the actual government wants you to hear it.

It’s genius - to create a fictitious world that mirrors our own in order to address and speak on real life issues. Think of George Orwell’s 1984 or the Truman Show. This is a post apocalyptic story here.

The live performance - (which I highly recommend watching) tells a lot of this story. Tyler is in obvious discomfort/unease playing these new songs. They seem rather fake and forced, like something or someone is making him only play these new happy pop songs and cutting him off when he gets too emotional. Of course this isn’t the case, he is playing a character as he often does. This is still Tyler.

I’ll be honest - These are my favorite musicians and at first listen I was a little confused by how different everything about this album sounded. Then I relistened along with lyrics and watched the SAI live show and realized that everything I can expect from them is still there, you just gotta read between the lines.

This album is actually incredibly brilliant.

Tyler himself said - that there were two albums that could/would be made. One was darker and more align with Trench’s sound and direction and the other would be lighter, funner. The reason he worked on and released this album now is because he felt the world needed some brightness, some positivity, some imagination. This album is actually inspired by a blue dragon toy that was inside Tyler’s studio - he thought about this dragon toy growing and stretching it’s wings to fly around his room with him, this is what led to him basing this album off the idea of imagination and escapism, creating a brighter/happier environment than what is in the world right now. Let’s be honest, we could all use

And again, hidden messages and cries of help are still there.

The production is vastly different on here too due to the different producers working on it with Tyler and Josh, Tyler learned guitar for the album. There is a lot of maturity in the sounds. This album can be listened to and taken as really positive and happy, or it can actually be incredibly intense and sad. Either way it’s a whole spectrum of emotion.

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Bravo my dudes, you’ve outdone yourselves again, even when I didn’t think it could be done. Don’t listen to the haters, only few will understand. And those who don’t understand, are just surface level fans. We get you, we hear you, we love you.

Thank you for all you have done/continue to do with your artistry and hardwork.

This album is nothing short of a masterpiece.

Just listen again...

And you’ll feel the saturation.

Please don’t write a review until you let this album play multiple times. At first I was disappointed. Played it again and liked a few songs. Played it again and love them all. They continue to make awesome music.

Wow, I’ve been a fan for a very long time and this has to be by far the worst album by them. Coming from the masterpiece that is “trench” to the lighthearted glossy sounds of SAI is a huge let down. I appreciate the direction they were going but none of the songs have any weight to them or staying power. Generic, lazy songwriting from one of the best songwriters of the past decade. Hoping the next album will be a true return to form.

I dont expect each album to be the exact same, but there is nothing hard hitting on this album at all. Sounds like radio pop music. A sellout album if Ive ever heard one.. Truly horrible. They had a original sound that was so amazing, and they threw it away for this. really, really, disappointed.

i have been a huge fan of twenty one pilots for a while, i absolutely hate this album. i'd rather listen to any of their other albums.

Been waiting so long for this and I’m massively disappointed. It’s a weird combination of soul train, Bobby Brown, and a teenage European trying to write techno pop. My favorite group and I think they are absolute geniuses, but this must be a joke......it has to be.

This is nothing like their last 3 albumns, and though the 1st albumn isn't my jam, it's much better than this. I've seen them in concert and loved it. But this..this is more akin to bubblegum upbeat pop with surprisingly uncomplicated lyrics and beats. Where'd the poetry go? Where's the grit? Where are the drums?? May as well be a one-man show. And I do like some pop, but not this.

If you liked their previous stuff, maybe give this one a pass, or make sure to listen before purchase, as I just canceled my pre-order. Very disappointed.

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Their music is always good. Shy Away has me excited to find out what the rest of the album is like!

Shy Away is a STRAIGHT rip off of Lisztomania by Phoenix.

Can't judge an unreleased album on 1 song, but... anybody else getting a Chutes Too Narrow / The Shins vibe from the lead track? Love me some TOP, saw them live, but sometimes they take it to that airy, light-hearted "Level of Concern" place and I just can't follow. I prefer their angst-y, harder, weirder stuff. Still looking forward to the full album drop...