THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Clancy is Grammy-winning duo Twenty One Pilots’ first studio album in three years and follows their RIAA gold-certified LP, Scaled And Icy.
With details of the release teased to via cryptic mailings and covert artswaps on streaming services, the first single Overcompensate welcomed listeners back to the band’s immersive world of Trench. Layers of synths build over a racing breakbeat in the song — a skilled passage of alternative dynamics, flexing in time, and ready to explode.
Having amassed over 33 billion streams worldwide and over three million tickets sold across global headline tours, the Columbus, Ohio duo of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun have established themselves as one of the most successful bands of the 21st century and redefined the sound of a generation. Co-produced by Joseph and Paul Meany, Clancy marks the final chapter in an ambitious multi-album narrative first introduced in the band’s 2015 multi-Platinum breakthrough, Blurryface. Furthermore,
The duo’s 2021 epic Scaled And Icy debuted at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Rock Albums and Alternative Albums charts while landing at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, marking the biggest opening week for a rock album in 2021. The record is highlighted by the No. 1 alternative hits The Outside, Saturday and Shy Away, the latter of which ascended to No. 1 at the format in just three weeks, placing the duo in an elite group of acts with multiple songs to rise to No. 1 at the format in three weeks or less including: U2, R.E.M., The Cure, Linkin Park, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Foo Fighters.
