The Most Lamentable Tragedy
The Most Lamentable Tragedy is a 29-track, 93-minute rock opera that grapples with Titus leader Patrick Stickles' manic depression. It is their least specific album but their most universal: The music encompasses everything they’ve ever sounded like and restores their claims to outsized ambition after the somewhat dour Local Business.
Given the band’s affinity for energy and explosions, Titus Andronicus is often compared to Hüsker Dü and The Clash, but a better corollary might be The Who. Both bands specialize in sudden tonal shifts from bombast to sensitive soul-searching, and like The Who, Titus Andronicus caters in collections of songs that work…
Over the last couple months, Patrick Stickles hasnt made the task of reviewing the fourth Titus Andronicus album, The Most Lamentable Tragedy, easy.
Patrick Stickles, frontman and songwriter of Titus Andronicus, is the sort of punk who probably reads Lincoln biographies or Nietzsche treatises while Hüsker Dü plays in the background.
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On their first three albums, Titus Andronicus made it clear they were among the most thematically and stylistically ambitious bands to emerge from the punkier end of indie rock since the dawn of the new millennium.
The New Jersey return with a blistering rock opera dealing with alienation, manic depression, body doubles and transformative soul-searching.
Titus Andronicus can never be accused of lacking ambition. They've got a name lifted from a Shakespearean tragedy, wrote a concept album about the Civil War, and interviews with frontman Patrick Stickles regularly include book title references that send r
Review of Titus Andronicus' new LP "The Most Lamentable Tragedy" is being released on July 28th. The lead single, "Fired Up", is now available to stream.
Punk concept albums may no longer be a contradiction in terms, but many of the traditional downsides to such undertakings come to bear on this unwieldy 90-minute monster
The singer/guitarist has been the lone constant behind Titus Andronicus for almost ten years now, and the songs he writes and performs require an amount of emotional investment on the part of the listener that is equal to Stickles’ own emotional investment.
Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy review: Titus Andronicus come roaring back.
The Most Lamentable TragedyArtist: Titus AndronicusGenre: RockLabel: MergeIf you’re new to Titus Andronicus, you’d be a brave person to take their fourth album as a starting point.