Vessel (Twenty One Pilots album)

Vessel
Studio album by Twenty One Pilots
Released January 8, 2013 (2013-01-08)
Studio Rocket Carousel Studio, Los Angeles, California
Genre
Length 45:38
Label Fueled by Ramen
Producer Greg Wells
Twenty One Pilots chronology
Regional at Best
(2011)		 Vessel
(2013)		 Blurryface
(2015)
Singles from Vessel
  1. "Holding On to You"
    Released: September 11, 2012
  2. "Guns for Hands"
    Released: December 26, 2012
  3. "Lovely"
    Released: April 17, 2013
  4. "House of Gold"
    Released: August 6, 2013
  5. "Fake You Out"
    Released: September 15, 2013[4]
  6. "Car Radio"
    Released: March 18, 2014

Vessel is the third studio album by American musical duo Twenty One Pilots, which was released on January 8, 2013. It is the band's first album released via Fueled by Ramen, and is their major-label debut album. As of July 2016, the album sold over 569,000 copies.[5]

Background

Twenty One Pilots performing in early 2014

High-school colleagues Tyler Joseph, Nick Thomas, and Chris Salih formed Twenty One Pilots in 2009.[6] The group released their debut album Twenty One Pilots.[6] Both Thomas and Salih parted ways with the band in 2011.[6] Soon afterwards Josh Dun joined the band;[6] Joseph had been friends with Dun for around a year.[7] Joseph first saw Dun when he was playing a show[7] with House of Heroes.[8] Joseph said that he "loved" the performance.[7] The band released Regional at Best later that year.[6] In June, the duo played their first out-of-state show to a group of 12 people.[9] The pair soon gained popularity through a series of videos made by friend Mark C. Eshleman.[6] The band played their last show as an unsigned band at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio to a crowd of 1,800 in attendance.[7] The duo signed with Fueled by Ramen in 2012.[6]

Production

Joseph composed the album "not knowing whether or not people were going to hear it".[10]

Recording for Vessel took place at Rocket Carousel Studio, located in Los Angeles, California with Greg Wells producing.[11] Wells provided additional synths, keyboards and programming.[11] Wells mixed the album, while Ian McGregor helped with recording.[11] Mastering was performed by Howie Weinberg and Dan Gerbarg at Howie Weinberg Mastering, also in Los Angeles.[11]

Release

In the summer of 2012, Twenty One Pilots released the Three Songs EP,[6] which featured the tracks "Guns for Hands", "Migraine", and "Ode to Sleep".[12] On September 11, "Holding On to You" was released as a single.[13] On December 18, the album was made available for streaming via Entertainment Weekly.[14] Vessel was released through Fueled by Ramen on January 8, 2013.[14] The two elderly men pictured on the album cover are Joseph and Dun's grandfathers.[7] The pair did it to see what the label's reaction was and when the label said yes the group said "Okay, maybe this is going to work!"[7] In an interview, Joseph spoke on the meaning behind the album's name, saying that a vessel (our body) is an object carrying something far more important than the outer shell, and when we die, that is set free and lives on.[15]

To help support the album, the band toured internationally throughout the year.[6] "Lovely" was released as a single in Japan on April 17, 2013,[16] and included as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of Vessel.[17] "House of Gold" was released as a radio single on August 6.[18] On September 15, "Fake You Out" was released as a single.[19] On October 4, the music video for "House of Gold" was released.[20] The video was directed by Warren Kommers[21] and filmed on Will Smith's ranch outside of Los Angeles, California.[22] "Car Radio" was released as a radio single on March 18, 2014.[23]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Alternative Press[2]
Alter the Press[24]
AMH Network[25]
Idobi Radio4/5[3]
Rolling StoneUnfavorable[26]
The Yorkshire Times4/5[27]

Vessel received mostly positive reviews upon release. Jason Pettigrew, writing for Alternative Press praised the albums multi-genre influence: "The major-label debut by twenty | one | pilots [sic] traipses across electro-pop, hip-hop and classic pop music—and that’s just the first song." In a more negative review, Rolling Stone's Dave DiMartino wrote "The duo [...] has somehow managed to take the most disagreeable and obnoxious aspects of the past decade’s “rap-rock” legacy, throw in some of the most aggravating melodic aspects of Linkin Park and Blink-182, and put together a new album that will surely make you want to decry ever liking rock ‘n’ roll at least three times before a cock crows!" [28]

In May 2015, it was announced the album had sold 265,000 copies in the United States.[29] The album has consistently sold more than 1,000 copies a week since its release.[29] By December, the album's U.S. sales stood at 375,000.[30] By July 2016, the album had sold over 569,000 copies in the U.S.[31]

Track listing

All tracks written by Tyler Joseph, except for "Holding On to You", written by Tyler Joseph, Maurice Gleaton, Charles Hammond, Robert Hill, Deangelo Hunt, Bernard Leverette, Gerald Tiller and Jamall Willingham. 

No. Title Length
1. "Ode to Sleep"   5:08
2. "Holding On to You"   4:23
3. "Migraine"   3:59
4. "House of Gold"   2:43
5. "Car Radio"   4:27
6. "Semi-Automatic"   4:14
7. "Screen"   3:49
8. "The Run and Go"   3:49
9. "Fake You Out"   3:51
10. "Guns for Hands"   4:32
11. "Trees"   4:27
12. "Truce"   2:22

Bonus tracks

Personnel

Personnel per booklet.[11]

Twenty One Pilots
Additional personnel
  • Greg Wells – additional synths, programming, additional keyboards
Production
  • Greg Wells – producer, mixing
  • Tyler Joseph – additional production
  • Ian McGregor – recording
  • Howie Weinberg, Dan Gerbarg – mastering
  • Reel Bear Media, Virgilio Tzaj – art direction, design
  • Reel Bear Media – photography
  • Rob Gold – art manager
  • Josh Skubel – packaging production

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (2013–16) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[32] 51
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[33] 126
Canadian Albums Chart[34] 29
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[35] 62
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[36] 49
Irish Albums (IRMA)[37] 24
Italian Albums (FIMI)[38] 91
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[39] 62
Scottish Albums (OCC)[40] 53
South Korean Albums (GAON)[41] 83
South Korean International Albums (GAON)[42] 7
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[43] 60
UK Albums (OCC)[44] 39
US Billboard 200[45] 21
US Billboard Alternative Albums[46] 10
US Billboard Catalog Albums[47] 3
US Billboard Digital Albums[48] 9
US Billboard Tastemaker Albums[49] 8
US Billboard Top Album Sales[50] 16
US Billboard Top Rock Albums[51] 15
US Billboard Vinyl Albums[52] 3

Year-end charts

Chart (2015) Position
US Billboard 200[53] 119
US Billboard Catalog Albums[54] 20

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[55] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[56] Platinum 1,000,000^

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

Music videos

References

Citations
  1. 1 2 3 4 Thomas, Fred. "Vessel - Twenty One Pilots: Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards: AllMusic". Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Pettigrew, Jason (January 22, 2013). "twenty - one - pilots - Vessel". Alternative Press. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Yi, Catherine (January 8, 2013). "twenty - one - pilots – Vessel: Album Review". idobi.com. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
  4. ↑ "UK: Download 'Fake You Out'!". Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  5. ↑ Caulfield, Keith (July 29, 2016). "Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Twenty One Pilots' 'Blurryface' Surpasses 1 Million U.S. Sales". Billboard. Retrieved August 22, 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Thomas, Fred. "Twenty One Pilots | Biography". allmusic.com. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bird 2015, p. 69
  8. ↑ DeVille, Chris (April 27, 2012). "Interview: Twenty One Pilots, part 1". Columbus Alive. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
  9. ↑ Sharp, Tyler (December 31, 2014). "Watch twenty one pilots perform "Ode To Sleep" for 12 people at their first out-of-state show - Alternative Press". Alternative Press. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
  10. ↑ Sherman, Maria (December 3, 2015). "Twenty One Pilots' Albums, Ranked: Blurryface (2015)". Fuse.tv. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 Vessel (Booklet). Twenty One Pilots. Fueled by Ramen. 2013. 075678683770.
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  13. ↑ "iTunes - Music - Holding On To You - Single by Twenty One Pilots". iTunes. Archived from the original on September 17, 2012. Retrieved July 5, 2015.
  14. 1 2 Rahman, Ray (December 18, 2012). "Stream the new Twenty One Pilots album 'Vessel' here -- EXCLUSIVE". Entertainment Weekly's EW.com. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
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  37. ↑ "GFK Chart-Track Albums: Week 34, 2016". Chart-Track. IRMA. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
  38. ↑ "Album – Classifica settimanale WK 48 (dal 2016-11-25 al 2016-12-01)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
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  42. ↑ "Gaon International Album Chart" (in Korean). Gaon Chart. Retrieved June 14, 2014.
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  49. ↑ "Twenty One Pilots - Chart History (Tastemaker Albums)". billboard.com. Retrieved January 5, 2016.
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  55. ↑ "British album certifications – Twenty One Pilots – Vessel". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Vessel in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Gold in the field By Award. Click Search
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Sources
  • Bird, Ryan (July 2015). Bird, Ryan, ed. "Who Are Ya?". Rock Sound. London: Freeway Press Inc. (201). ISSN 1465-0185. 

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