- 2025-09-16
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MUSIC
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Twenty One Pilots Releases New Album “Breach”
American alt-rock duo Twenty One Pilots, consisting of Tyler Joseph (vocals/keyboards) and Josh Dun (drums), released their eighth studio album “Breach” on September 12, 2025 via Fueled by Ramen.
The album concludes the decade-long narrative of the conceptual albums, which include 2015's “Blurryface”, 2018's “Trench”, 2021's “Scaled” and “Icy”, and 2024's “Clancy”, resolving the cliffhanger from its predecessor's ending.
The end of that story takes place in the accompanying music video for “City Walls” directed by Jensen Moen.
The album comprises 13 tracks, produced by Tyler Joseph, Paul Meany, and Mike Elizondo.
The band lead singer Tyler Joseph said of the album, “'Breach' took everything I had left; but as I stare at these finished wav files, I realize how little they mean until they get to you. Fans of this band have given me so much fulfillment and purpose. Thank you for that. The end of that story takes place in the music video for the album's opening track, 'City Walls'. I can honestly say I'm just as excited for you to see this freaking video as I am for you to hear the whole album. But then the story is over. Side note: that last song is really important to me, and is my attempt at understanding the ending of the City Walls video.”- Tyler Joseph told Zane Lowe of Apple Music about the album.“We kind of played it like our last record, 'Clancy' was going to be the end of the story. And we eventually knew it was going to be a cliffhanger, the way to end it. And I think that we felt a little like we had just done like a misdirection to the fans. We never, like to pull the rug out from under them, so intentionally, knowing that we wanted to name the the following record 'Breach' was kind of this like, play on, we kind of breached their trust a bit in a way that actually ties into the story that we're telling as well. So, it felt like it worked. But it is like, officially this album 'Breach' is the last album. That's telling the story will end with this one.”
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The band explained some tracks for the album.
“City Walls”
“So the first song on the record is called 'City Walls'. And that's going to be the one that has a music video that kind of wraps up the whole story. And it's the biggest music video we've ever done. It's the most money we've ever spent on a music video. It was five days of shooting. And so that first song on the record really is the sound bed for the final part of that story.
There was moments we had to recreate old music videos to bring into this music video. So I was wearing clothes that I had been hanging on to for almost a decade. And I've still fit in almost like, 'That's dope.' So it was recreating the old music videos to fit in with this music video was the thing that probably was the most expensive and most difficult to do. But that's gonna be the part that's the most exciting is to see how all these old videos come in and tie in with this new video.”
“Drum Show”
Tyler Joseph: “Our second “'single' (whatever that means anymore) comes out. It's called 'Drum Show' and all I'll say is that Josh might be doing more than just drumming on it. Proud of that guy. The music video for 'Drum Show' (which Mark crushed) drops with it, but is not a part of the story of Dema and Clancy and Torchbearer.
He was pretty nervous going in, and I was a little nervous too. I didn't know what he was gonna give me to work with, but he crushed it. And not only did he sing kind of lower, but he also sang a higher part. And he thought, when he heard it back after I mixed it and stuff, he thought that that was me just layering my higher vocal with it. I was like, 'No, dude, that was you all off. There was nothing, no me in there at all.' And so, really proud. So it was awesome.”
Josh Dun: “I think the idea is, like, high school, college, sort of, like, angst when you're driving to and from school or work and music is kind of the only thing that you've got. And sometimes you've just gotta get out all the aggression on the steering wheel. I think drumming is still the main, the main thing for me. But it's fun though, I think being a two person band, we've always kind of challenged each other to, kind of like, expand or push ourselves to do a little bit more. I think putting yourself in a situation that's a little uncomfortable is fun.”
“The Contract”
“The other thing with this melody, on 'The Contract' specifically, I've gotten to the point where as I'm singing melodies and working on a lyric and a point of view I have my kind of go-to, my tools in the tool belt of how I would sing something or how I would melodically move throughout chords and this song particularly I was like, 'I need to just rethink what a good melody even is.' You take exactly what came natural and you do the opposite and so for me, the chorus of 'The Contract,' when I was first starting to sing over this chord progression it just was like, 'I've done this, I've heard this,' like, 'What if I were to jump up higher? Quicker and then come back down?' And a previous version of me would never think I can go like this. As I'm seeing the melody drawn out, I would never have done that and I just really force myself to kind of rewire what I think a good melody even is.”
“Robot Voices”
Co-writer Shane Hagan: “The original demo of the original song was recorded in Logic by me in late 2021 in Brooklyn, NY for the band Buffohaus. Buffohaus broke up and became Blanket Approval. Blanket Approval recorded the song '“My Soft Spots My Robots.' Then Tyler found that song and interpolated it. Hence multiple writers... I literally cried when I heard it for the first time yesterday and heard how Tyler reimagined it. His choice of using the bridge as the chorus and his additions to the lyrics are amazing. Also I think his voice sounds so good on the chorus.. so full. When we originally workshopped the bridge part - with the cut out and come back in - I knew we had something special!” - source : Apple Music
