Titus Andronicus - Local Business
01 Ecce Homo
02 Still Life With Hot Deuce and Silver Platter
03 Upon Viewing Oregon’s Landscape With the Flood of Detritus
04 Food Fight!
05 My Eating Disorder
06 Titus Andronicus VS. the Absurd Universe (3rd Round KO)
07 In a Big City
08 In a Small Body
09 (I Am the) Electric Man
10 Tried to Quit Smoking
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For some reason I thought this was going to be a double album
I'm glad that it isn't.
YES YES YES
THIS ROCKS
Is the Airing of Grievances worth listening to?
Yes.
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If you care about sound quality, then no.
Yes! It's a fantastic album
I love the sound (haven't heard the remaster but I like my version just fine), the lyrics, the track order, Titus Andronicus quotes, the instrumentation, everything. It was so good at the time (as was the show I went to) that I was worried they'd ruin it with the second album. Fortunately they didn't as that was obviously amazing.
The two records actually run into eachother really well with similar themes and even melody reprises so it's well worth getting both. It looks like they're continuing this arc-like theme with the third album too.
It's hard to explain just why The Airing of Grievances is so good as on first impact/description it sounds messy and it's set out pretty much like a standard rock album but it's one of the most unique and brilliant albums I own.
So yes.
^ this
There's a remaster?
it was remastered very soon after it was released.
The original album cover looks like this:
http://www.dbf-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/titus_andronicus_the_airing_of_grievances2.jpg
While the new one looks like this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/Titus_andronicus_the_airing_of_grivances.jpg
I've only heard one track from the newer one but it seemed a lot clearer, allowing you to pick out the vocals and individual instruments more. It's probably better but, in that way that always happens when you're used to something already, I prefer the one I have. I should probably have a listen to the full re-released one though.
Cool, will have to check that.
can't fucking wait
YEAAAAAAAAH
the enemy is everywhere
AAH!
By a long, long, long way The Monitor is the album i've listened to more than anything else. Sometimes i get annoyed it hasn't got more bigging up but tbh, im glad because the last thing I'd want would be over hype of them and all that comes with that.
Looking forward to seeing if it is a continuation of the other albums (evolution a better word i guess) Monitor is veeery different in terms of my enjoyment of it to TAOG but the through-line becomes clear after a while, even if it's only because of the drunken honesty of lyrics. Definitely harnessed to better effect on The Monitor though- i will stop talking about that album now because i could dry my mouth out talking about how affirming it is.
Can't wait for this!
if it pleases, some words I wrote on The Monitor:
http://masterpiecesoftheheaviergenres.tumblr.com/post/12298061188/titus-andronicus-the-monitor-or-high-brow-punk
Nice article
Not often you get contextually informed discussion of new albums in the age of hyperimpressionism. Great stuff.
hey thanks very much
that's often how I try and structure my essays on that blog (I think)
Excellent news.
new single
http://pitchfork.com/news/47890-new-titus-andronicus-in-a-big-city/
on first listen, massively disappointing.
I really don't want to say it
But this is horrid. An embarrasing pastiche of everything great about The Monitor.
I'm going to sleep on it and try again...
I'm less annoyed by this today
But indifference is the best I can muster.
yeah
it wasn't quite as bad the second time around, but I'm hoping this is the duffer or something, seems pretty sloppy
sounds really laboured
not feeling it
I like it
I hope the guitar sound, and the title are a nod to Big Country.
They're really not a singles band in my opinion, so I'm expecting this to be probably the weakest song on the album. And I like it.
totally agree...
really liking it so far, looking forward to the album now
Sounds like a demo...
exactly what I thought
doesn't even sound finished, let's hope he uploaded the wrong version? heh heh...uhhh
i was braced for the worst because of all the negative feedback
but i actually like it quite a lot. the flat guitars are a bit jarring at first but it grows on you.
I'm listening to this now
Not sure if it's the particular download I've got, but it sounds like it's produced completely differently to the previous albums, but it sounds so different. I remember the first time I listened to Fear and Loathing in Mahwah, NJ and thinking 'what the fuck is he saying? they've upped the vocals a lot.
It's great, obviously.
Also
I imagine some of you are as dickheaded as me and wanted to know the track lengths (as generally for me with these guys the longer the song, the better)
01 Ecce Homo (5:13)
02 Still Life With Hot Deuce and Silver Platter (5:31)
03 Upon Viewing Oregon’s Landscape With the Flood of Detritus (3:29)
04 Food Fight! (1:11)
05 My Eating Disorder (8:14)
06 Titus Andronicus VS. the Absurd Universe (3rd Round KO) (2:11)
07 In a Big City (3:37)
08 In a Small Body (6:13)
09 (I Am the) Electric Man (4:16)
10 Tried to Quit Smoking (9:46)
Heard only good things about this
Which has eased my concerns no end.
mmm, decent-ish.
Don't like making such a statement after one day of listening (despite listening a lot) - and god knows I never thought The Monitor would go on to be one of my all-time favourites - but I'll be very surprised if i ever like this nearly as much as the last one.
biggest problem is the production is just really... flat sounding. not just in the songs themselves but in the huge-sounding feedbacky interludes that were so great on the last album - i.e. last 40 seconds of this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOl8nGbmJ5A / and at the same time, as someone is never a fan of spoken-word interludey bits, they worked so atmospherically well on the monitor and made it feel so complete.
in comparison, this just feels like a much more straight-forward punk album with half of the ambition. Which isn't bad, like - but even in terms of the songs themselves, I at least quite like pretty much all of them, but I don't think a single one would even sneak in to the top 7 or 8 of The Monitor.
Mostly my feeling is that this is just standard, decent-ish indie rock. Which has made me appreciate The Monitor even more, as probably my favourite record of that genre of the past 10-12 years.
This is almost exactly what I think
In 2010, my two favourite albums were 'The Wild Hunt' by The Tallest Man on Earth, and 'The Monitor'. Both these acts have released new albums this year, and both have underwhelmed me a bit. I can't put my finger on why. I liked both their new albums a lot, but both have seemed to follow a similar pattern:
Debut = awesome but patchy with some astonishing stand out tracks
2nd Album = really, really good. A perfect amalgamation of everything that made the debut awesome, but more of a statement, an encapsulation of who the band are. An experience: The Wild Hunt as a truly terrific set of songs, The Monitor as an album, as albums should be.
3rd album = it seems like both acts have chosen to drop the things that made the second albums so awesome, in favour of treading water, or toning it down. I think it's down to a classic example of me wanting different things than the band.
I should add
I think both Local Business and There's No Leaving Now are both great, but only on a par with debuts: generally awesome with some stand out tracks.
*Spoiler Warning*
I love 'My Eating Disorder' though: I'll take ludicrously long songs which use the riff from 24 Hours By Joy Division with ridiculous crunching metal chords any day. But listening to that Neil Young pastiche Electric Man song and thinking on 'The Monitor you had songs like Theme From Cheers or Four Score and Seven in that position, it's kind of a shame.
i've enjoyed it...
it's not much like the monitor. stickles has been listening to a lot of clash.
just listened to in a big city
i don't like it