Countryman served as a senior staff writer. He was previously the 2018-2019 Music | Arts editor and an A&amp;E reporter.

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Album review: Twenty One Pilots&#039; &#039;Trench&#039; falls flat, fails to produce a variety of sounds - Daily Bruin

Album review: Twenty One Pilots&#8217; &#8216;Trench&#8217; falls flat, fails to produce a variety of sounds

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“Trench” is a cohesive album – but not in a good way. Twenty One Pilots dropped its latest album Friday, and it featured 14 songs, of which only three stood out.

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Album review: Twenty One Pilots’ ‘Trench’ falls flat, fails to produce a variety of sounds

By Eli Countryman

Oct. 5, 2018 3:33 p.m.