Twenty One Pilots (album)
| Twenty One Pilots | |
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| Studio album by Twenty One Pilots | |
| December 29, 2009
January 12, 2010 (Apple Music)[1] | |
| February - November 2009 | |
| Band home studio,
Chris Salih's home studio | |
| Emo hip-hop, alt-pop,
сhristian music, soft indi-rock, electro-pop | |
| 62:08 | |
| Self-released | |
| Chris Salih, Tyler Joseph | |
| Spotify | |
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| Twenty One Pilots chronology | |
| Regional at Best (2011) | |
| Singles from Twenty One Pilots | |
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Twenty One Pilots — is the debut studio album by Twenty One Pilots, released independently on December 29, 2009. The album sold 115,000 copies and peaked at number 139 on the U.S. Billboard 200 on January 13, 2017 after the band signed a contract with Fueled by Ramen.
Prehistory
Chris Salih and Tyler Joseph met in 2008 at a party through mutual friends. Chris liked the way Tyler plays and sings and suggested making music together. They played several times in Chris's homemade recording studio and then they decided to form a band. Tyler later invited Nick Thomas to join the band as a bassist. In the fall of 2008, the group begins to rehearse songs that Tyler wrote. Tyler Joseph mentioned at the May 1, 2010 concert that the first song he showed Chris Salih was «Air Catcher». Up until early spring 2009 Tyler wrote music and songs in his basement at home and then they played them together in Chris's home studio and occasionally performed their songs live. Also at that time Tyler wrote a song to his father describing him and supporting him during the global crisis of 2008, which was told by Joseph's father himself in an interview.[2]
Recording
In winter - spring 2009 the band recorded some demo songs in Chris' studio and unofficially released the Johnny Boy EP on May 4, 2009. Most of the music and lyrics were written by Tyler, bass and drums were not recorded live, Chris' drumming triggered into the software EZ Drummer. The recording of the album took place throughout 2009. From June the band moved into a rented house with some friends, in the basement of which the band set up their recording studio.
Selist
Unreleased songs
«Time to Say Goodbye» this song should have made it onto the album, but because of the samples from Italian singer Andrea Bocelli's song "Con te partirò" sung in duet with Sarah Brightman. But still the song was released 31 Decemver 2009 and in early 2010 on the band's official website and MySpace for free download.
«Trees» According to Nick Thomas in an interview, the song was written before the band was formed, but the band members thought it fit the band's repertoire and wanted to release it on the first album, but for some reason the song didn't make it onto the record and on December 31, 2009 it was released on the band's MySpace for free download.[3][4]