TITUS ANDRONICUS w/ Mal Blum @ AS220
115 Empire St, Providence, RI 02903, USA
41.821816
-71.41595000000001
Description
An Obelisk
is the sixth album from Titus Andronicus, which finds the noted rock
band under the stewardship of producer and legendary rocker Bob Mould
(Hüsker Dü, Sugar, et al.). This trans-generational meeting of the minds
has yielded the most immediate, intense, and unadorned Titus Andronicus
record to date. Clocking in at a brisk 38 minutes and change, it is
also the shortest. Recorded over six breathless days at Steve Albini’s
world-renowned Electrical Audio studio in Chicago,
An Obelisk presents the sound of Titus Andronicus, rock band, at its most irreducible, as monolithic as the album’s titular monument.
Curious listeners old and new can take their first careful steps into the shadow of An Obelisk
today with the newly unleashed lyric video for lead single “(I Blame)
Society.” Directed by longtime collaborator Ray Concepcion, this video
brings to life some of the most unsparing verses yet to drip from the
poison pen of singer-songwriter Patrick Stickles, leaving just enough
room to showcase the majesty of two of America’s most notable obelisks,
Cleopatra’s Needle in New York City and the District of Columbia’s
Washington Monument.
An Obelisk functions as a kind of companion piece to last year’s A Productive Cough. Taken together, these two records present a panoramic view of Titus Andronicus’ musical interests. If A Productive Cough left listeners wondering what happened to all the fast songs, An Obelisk offers an answer—they are here. Whereas A Productive Cough
was slathered with every available bell and whistle, very much a
product of the studio and a demonstration of its capacity for “magic,”
An Obelisk is built for the stage, the most faithful and true reflection of the Titus Andronicus live sound yet put to tape.
Thusly, An Obelisk
has all the trappings of a classic punk album, though, to hear Stickles
tell it, it is moreso an album about punk. “The ideology of ‘punk’
supports the elevation of our own interior authority and the degradation
of exterior authority, which we recognize to be arbitrary, a tool by
which the many are subjugated under the few,” Stickles explains, growing
noticeably short of breath. “While the common ‘punk rocker’ will take
this as license to piss on the street and generally pursue a lifestyle
of nihilistic hedonism, the true ‘punk’ will recognize the price of this
freedom.
An Obelisk tells the story of one particular
individual, someone maybe a lot like you but certainly a lot like me,
scouring linty pockets, trying to pay that bill.”
Website - http://titusandronicus.net/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/TitusAndronicusOfficial
Twitter - https://twitter.com/titusandronicus
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