Album · 2021
Scaled and Icy
Scaled and Icy is an album by Twenty One Pilots, released in 2021 on Fueled by Ramen, with 11 tracks.
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Album · 2021
Scaled and Icy is an album by Twenty One Pilots, released in 2021 on Fueled by Ramen, with 11 tracks.
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11 tracks · 7 min
Scaled and Icy is the sixth studio album by American musical duo, Twenty One Pilots. The album was released on May 21, 2021, through Fueled by Ramen and Elektra. The album's title is a play on "scaled back and isolated", a phrase frontman Tyler Joseph associated with music produced during the COVID-19 pandemic, though the phrase is also an anagram of "Clancy is dead", a reference to the protagonist of their previous album, Trench. On March 4, 2019, five months after the release of their fifth studio album Trench, the band confirmed that they were working on their next studio album. About the possible theme, frontman Joseph said, "there's a character that hasn't been talked about on any record yet that plays a huge role in the narrative that obviously will need to be talked about and it's probably where we're going next". On April 9, 2020, the duo released the song "Level of Concern", which marked the first musical output by the duo since the release of Trench. The song encourages the listener to keep hope during hard times, specifically talking about the COVID-19 pandemic. In a May 2020 interview with Zane Lowe, Joseph expressed uncertainty as to whether their next album would con…