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.
What other band is coming out with material this self-lacerating or far-reaching, and having the songs to back it up?
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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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
Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy review: Titus Andronicus come roaring back.