{"id":29986,"date":"2013-04-02T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T13:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/already-heard-recommends-twenty-one-pilots\/"},"modified":"2023-09-16T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T12:40:00","slug":"already-heard-recommends-twenty-one-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/already-heard-recommends-twenty-one-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"Already Heard Recommends: Twenty One Pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/21pilots.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>With a Billboard 200 album already under their belts, Columbus, Ohio duo <strong>Twenty One Pilots\u00a0<\/strong>are set to make a splash here in the UK with the release of their new single<em> \u2018Holding On To You\u2019<\/em> on 8th April.<\/p>\n<p>Their own brand of \u201cSchizoid Pop\u201d could be described as mash-up between Fun., 3OH!3 and Hellogoodbye with piano-led melodies and energetic pop hooks.<\/p>\n<p>Since forming in 2009,\u00a0<strong>Twenty One Pilots\u00a0<\/strong>has self-released two albums and their latest album, <em>&#8216;Vessel\u2019<\/em> is set to be given a UK release in June through the acclaimed <strong>Fueled By Ramen<\/strong> and sees the band working with producer Greg Wells (Weezer, Adele, Aerosmith.)<\/p>\n<p>Already Heard caught up with the duo; Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun as they arrived in the UK for their first headline show. They discussed their new single, joining Fueled By Ramen, working with Greg Wells and more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"twenty one pilots: Holding On To You [OFFICIAL VIDEO]\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ktBMxkLUIwY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Already Heard: Could you introduce yourself and your role in Twenty One Pilots?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em> Josh Dun: I\u2019m Josh and my role in Twenty One Pilots is to play the drums. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tyler Joseph: I\u2019m Tyler and I sing and play the piano.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AH: This is your first time here in the UK. How does it feel to be here?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Josh: It feels cold\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tyler: But at the same time\u2026we\u2019re from a place that\u2019s from similar weather.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Josh: So with that being said, it feels like home\u2026and it\u2019s crazy! It\u2019s an honour to be here on the other side of the world and getting to be a part of the culture and play music with people here in England.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AH: While you\u2019re here you\u2019re playing a sold out show at The Barfly in London. What were your first reactions when you heard it was sold out?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Tyler: I screamed, like a little girl\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Josh: I fainted\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tyler: He fainted\u2026 and I screamed that he fainted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Josh: It was crazy\u2026 When we first decided to come over and play in England you just don\u2019t know.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tyler: You assume that no one knows who the heck you are and that no one\u2019s going to be there, that\u2019s the assumption.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Josh: That\u2019s how it is in the states sometimes, you just don\u2019t know if anyone\u2019s going to show up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tyler: To have people coming to this show, it\u2019s great.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AH: For UK fans, what can they expect from a Twenty One Pilots show?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Tyler: Well there are only two of us on stage and I hope that they recognise the invitation to be a part of it because we need them! We\u2019re going to work for them at first, to prove to them that they don\u2019t owe us anything but then after that hopefully invite them to be the show.<!-- more --><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AH: For new listeners your sound has been classed as \u201cSchizoid Pop.\u201d Care to explain?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em> Josh: Well I think that people don\u2019t really know how to classify our music ever\u2026which we don\u2019t either! And that\u2019s actually something that a writer in Columbus, Ohio came up with because he didn\u2019t know how to classify us and so we thought that was really cool. We looked up the word \u201cschizoid\u201d and part of the definition is confused and unpredictable and that\u2019s something that we go for in all aspects from writing, recording and playing live to maybe something that we\u2019re going to wear or do. It\u2019s important to keep people\u2019s attention because if somebody is predictable then you might lose that. It\u2019s really hard to describe without listening to it or especially seeing a show but maybe confused is a good way to describe it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AH: The trip coincides with the release of your new single,<em> &#8216;Holding On To You.\u2019<\/em> Can you tell us what the single is about?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Tyler: The lyrics are very introspective. It\u2019s a moment inside of my mind and the things that I was going through and I\u2019ll never get sick of playing that song because I get to relive the things that I was going through at that time. In the end there\u2019s peace, in the end, we win. But throughout the song, there\u2019s a struggle. We\u2018ll see if anyone resonates with the lyrics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AH: The single is a preview to your latest album <em>&#8216;Vessel.\u2019<\/em> In what way does <em>&#8216;Holding On To You\u2019<\/em> fit into the album?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Tyler: The reason why we\u2019re excited about having that be the stand out track is because if there ever was a song to place in the middle of our very wide dynamic of that album, then that song is a good middle ground of what to expect from &#8216;Vessel.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AH: Over in America, <em>&#8216;Vessel\u2019<\/em> peaked at number 58 in the Billboard 200. Did you ever expect that to happen?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Tyler: We don\u2019t really know much about charts and we didn\u2019t even know what that meant! I\u2019m going \u201c58? Who are the other 57? Let\u2019s take them out!\u201d But it\u2019s cool to hear a number and think I guess that\u2019s good? The currency I guess is where you are in the charts these days, but it\u2019s hard for me to focus on that because every night I\u2019m focusing on the people who are there right now, to live that album with us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Josh: Yeah, I don\u2019t really want to be in the mind-set of numbers, I try and tune that stuff out. I\u2019ll leave that up to somebody else to keep track of!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AH: How has the overall response been to the album?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Tyler: The one thing I\u2019ve noticed, because this is our first go around, the way that people from the industry have reacted to it. When they come to a show they think \u201coh they didn\u2019t just sing the single (but) they sang the entire album\u201d. And we\u2019re thinking, yeah we put out the entire album! Usually people come to a show to hear that one song that\u2019s doing well and to go to our shows and see our crowd invested in the entire thing. It is very encouraging and really honestly the way that we wanted it to be. That album is meant to be experienced in a whole, but you know we live in a world of singles!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AH: You worked with producer Greg Wells on the album. He has worked with several major pop artists. What did he bring to the record? <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Josh: Obviously knowledge of how to make things sound the way that we wanted them to sound, which was really going into was the main thing that we wanted. We felt that the songs were written and we just wanted it to have a bigger and fuller sound to have it make a little bit more sense. It was great working with him because that\u2019s what he wanted to do, and he wanted to come in and maintain a lot of the same things that we had already done. Greg and his engineer, Ian both did a great job of getting it to sound how we wanted it to.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AH: You\u2019re latest signing to Fueled by Ramen. How did you come to join the label?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em> Josh: We signed a piece of paper\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tyler: Yeah! It was that simple! We started just focusing on our home town and we developed enough of a following to sell out some venues that national touring acts are supposed to be in. We didn\u2019t really know it at the time but local unsigned bands weren\u2019t selling out venues like this, we just thought it was the next step\u2026 and there was one show in particular that we sold out. 1700 kids came out and at that point, we still don\u2019t know exactly how it happened but the ripple in the water started throughout the industry and by the next month there were over a dozen labels interested in us all at once. We go through this long period where it seems like no one is listening, other than the people who are supporting us, and all of a sudden everyone wakes up and wants to be a part of it. It was a crazy time in our life and we took it in our stride. We took our time and made sure it was the right fit and now we truly understand the good side of involving a label.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AH: FBR has a fantastic roster and is label that has had plenty of success. Was there any pressure or expectation to succeed when you joined the label?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Josh: Of course signing some kind of legal binding document with anybody is going come with a bit of pressure, but I think they\u2019ve done a great job from the beginning of encouraging us and also confident in their abilities and our abilities together to make sure that it does work and that\u2019s a huge reason why we went with them. Since Tyler and I have started this without anybody there\u2019s been a confidence that we believe that this can work and that carried over when coming in with a label. But there is pressure always\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tyler: That\u2019s why we don\u2019t want to know about charts!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Josh: Yeah\u2026we just want to play music and that\u2019s it! <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AH:<em> &#8216;Vessel\u2019<\/em> is released here in the UK in June. Why should fans check out the album?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em> Tyler: I wrote songs that I wanted to hear and I think that there are a lot of people like me out there, that always wanted to hear a song do that or be that or say that. But check it out and tell me that I\u2019m wrong! <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AH: Do you have any final words for the Already Heard readers?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Tyler: Maybe a lot of bands say that it\u2019s an honour to be over here in the UK and playing music for you guys but we truly do respect your taste in music and respect the industry that you have here and if you will have us, we are your band!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Holding On To You\u2019<\/em> by <strong>Twenty One Pilots\u00a0<\/strong> is released on 8th April through <strong>Fueled By Ramen\/Atlantic Records<\/strong>. The album <em>&#8216;Vessel\u2019<\/em> is released on 3rd June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twenty One Pilots<\/strong> links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyonepilots.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Official Website<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/twentyonepilots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twentyonepilots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/twentyonepilots.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tumblr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Sean Reid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We learn about \u201cSchizoid Pop\u201d duo Twenty One Pilots as they prepare to make UK headline debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2329,508],"tags":[12994,1335,188,12243,6337,3095,12242],"class_list":["post-29986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-recommends","tag-already-heard-recommends","tag-atlantic-records","tag-fueled-by-ramen","tag-holding-on-to-you","tag-recommends","tag-twenty-one-pilots","tag-vessel"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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