Twenty One Pilots return with 'Overcompensate', the first single from their new album 'Clancy'

Twenty One Pilots have a new album on their hands. Its titled Clancy, will be released on May 17 and is connected to the rest of his discography, a saga made up of Scale and Icy, Blurryface and Vessel.

The beginning of this new chapter in its history is starring Overcompensate, a first single that introduces us to Clancy and his universe, that of a fugitive who seeks to break a vicious circle.

Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun thus welcome a new era that does not break with what came before, but is directly related to the rest of the songs they have created for more than a decade.

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Clancy: the final chapter?

“I’m trapped. Stuck in a loop I’ve never been able to break. I want to believe this will be the last time, but I don’t know for sure. I’ll start with what I do now. I’m a citizen of an ancient city—well, they say It’s old but there’s no evidence, I can see my friends rolling their eyes. “I’ll be brief: I’m a citizen of Dema, a circular concrete city at the bottom of an otherwise wild and green continent, Trench. We are prohibited from going there. “Most people haven’t even seen it, but I have,” the introduction begins.

“I’m a fugitive, one who gets better and better with each attempt, but they always find me. Well, he finds me… Nico or, as he calls himself, Blurryface. He is the leader of the Nine Bishops who govern the city. His authority comes from two aspects: a miraculous power and a hijacked religion, and one feeds the other. A loop. Is called Valism and all you need to know is that it teaches that self-destruction is the only way to paradise. It also allows you to comfortably become a vessel (vessel) available for use by the Bishops. And that’s where the miracle appears. We call it empowerment. The rules are that you can only take over, or control, a corpse for a short period of time. And, likewise, they (the bishops) are the only ones who can do this. “I am a citizen, I am a fugitive and I am an exception to the norm,” he adds,

He continues with the last thing that happened to put us in the present: “This is what happened recently: I tricked Nico into taking me outside the walls, I created a flaming distraction, I escaped. I wandered, I became weak and they tracked me, but this time the tracking route was different. I saw them, they were watching me. Banditos. Legends, unique stories of a group that lived out here. Shortly after returning inside the walls, my new town took me outside. They needed me for something: they welcomed me, they showed me their colors, but the loop was too strong. I was captured again inside (the walls).”

“I guess the rumor spread, I became popular in Dema and the Bishops didn’t like it, but they decided to use it to their advantage. They made me a buffoon to entertain people, to lie to them and to perform for them. Then, Nico was betrayed… and I escaped, again. On this occasion, I found myself in a new place, dragged to an island and there I received a gift that I thought was extinct. Now it had exactly the same miraculous power that they wielded from their towers. I am a citizen, a fugitive, an exception. I go back to Trench and I’m Clancy,” he concludes.