Twenty One Pilots to Wrap Long-Running Narratives on New Album, ‘Breach’

Almost one year to the day since the release of their most recent record, Clancy, Ohio duo Twenty One Pilots have announced the release of their forthcoming seventh album, Breach.

Sharing news of their new record on social media on Wednesday (May 21), Twenty One Pilots have announced that the album will arrive on an unspecified date in September, with first single “The Contract” to be released on June 12.

The album’s announcement was also paired with the news that it appears to thematically continue the narrative arcs which the band have focused on across the past decade. “Hello Clancy. Hello Blurryface,” they wrote on social media. “Let’s finish this.”

Referencing the titular characters of their 2024 and 2015 LPs Clancy and Blurryface, respectively, the record will ostensibly wrap up the narratives that have also continued across records such as 2018’s Trench and 2021’s Scaled and Icy.

Composed of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun, Twenty One Pilots first formed in 2009 and released a pair of independent records before 2013’s Vessel served as their major label debut and commercial breakthrough, ultimately peaking at No. 21 on the Billboard 200. The group received their first No. 1 with 2015’s Blurryface, with their following records all reaching the top three.

More recently, Twenty One Pilots wrapped their Clancy World Tour with a series of U.K. dates earlier this month. These shows made headliners when, in the final moments of their gig at Manchester’s AO Arena on May 11, a concertgoer was seen grabbing one of Dun’s drums and casually walking away with it. 

“I really don’t think you should take that,” one fan can be heard saying in a widely shared video of the alleged theft, as another adds, “Have I just witnessed a crime. Has she actually just stolen that drum? That’s crazy.”

Though the unnamed fan initially appeared to get away with the souvenir unhindered, dedicated fans went into full investigative mode to attempt to track them down. The hours-long search appeared to pay off when Twenty One Pilots’ behind-the-scenes tour videographer Sax posted on Instagram on May 12 that the one-of-a-kind drum had been returned.