“Trench” by Twenty One Pilots was released on Oct. 5, 2018, on Apple music, Spotify, and Google Play Music. The album marked the duo’s first major release since 2015’s “Blurryface” and it was their fifth album released since they started making music back in 2009. The album was announced on July 11 and along with the announcement came the early release of two songs off the album, “Jumpsuit” and “Nico and The Niners,” both of which breached the top 100 chart over the summer, peaking at No. 50 and No. 79 respectively. After “Blurryface” was the eighth best selling album of 2016 with over 1.5 million copies sold, as well as containing two of the Billboard Hot 100 top five singles, “Stressed Out” and “Ride,” the hype for this new album has been massive, and it has certainly lived up to it.

“Trench” is a terrific album, and in my opinion is every bit as good as “Blurryface” before it. All 14 songs are unique enough that listening to the whole album through does not get boring and repetitive, yet each song still incorporates the elements of the Twenty One Pilots we have come to know and love. The incorporation of heavy bass lines and rapid drums provide some faster paced songs that one can really feel and move to, such as “Jumpsuit” and “Levitate,” but there is still some nice contrasting slower more mellow songs like “Neon Gravestones” and “Leave The City.”

The 14-song album comes in just under an hour at 56 minutes long, but when you start getting into the songs and really feeling the melodies and the clean beats, time really flies. The opening track, “Jumpsuit,” is for sure one of the highlights of the album with its changing pace and really cool bass line that has a slight hint of grunge to it, along with “Chlorine” that has a really mesmerizing chorus and a very nice drum line for the verses. It is definitely a song that everyone can feel the rhythm to. On the more softer side of the album, “Leave The City” really is a beautiful song that invokes some serious emotions upon listening, with touches of sadness met with slowly uprising moments with changes in volume and pitch.

Overall, the album is definitely worth a listen. Especially if you enjoyed the pair’s past works, you are sure to enjoy this one. As a whole I would give “Trench” an eight out of 10. Each song is unique and special in its own way and many of them are really fantastic. In fact, there are really no bad songs, not every song is one you could listen to over and over again. Whether or not this album reaches the heights of “Blurryface” remains to be seen, and with artists like Lil Wayne and Logic dropping some very nice tracks themselves, there certainly is a lot of competition for listening time. One thing that is for sure however, is that Twenty One Pilots have answered the calls of their fans and produced another great work of music, and I am sure there is more to come.