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The Monitor by Titus Andronicus (CD, 2010) Brand New Factory Sealed

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Item specifics

Condition
Brand New: An item that has never been opened or removed from the manufacturer’s sealing (if ...
Features
Sealed
UPC
0634904047726
Artist
Titus Andronicus
Format
CD
Release Year
2010
Record Label
XL Recordings, Bqtx
Release Title
The Monitor
Genre
Alternative Rock

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Product Identifiers

Record Label
XL Recordings, Bqtx
UPC
0634904047726
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12046035548

Product Key Features

Format
CD
Release Year
2010
Genre
Alternative Rock
Artist
Titus Andronicus
Release Title
The Monitor

Dimensions

Item Height
0.37 in
Item Weight
0.20 lb
Item Length
5.68 in
Item Width
4.95 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks
10
Number of Discs
1
Tracks
1.1 A More Perfect Union 1.2 Titus Andronicus Forever or Theme from "The Monitor" 1.3 No Future Part Three: Escape from No Future 1.4 Richard II or Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds 1.5 A Pot in Which to Piss 1.6 Four Score and Seven 1.7 Theme from "Cheers" 1.8 To Old Friends and New 1.9 ... and Ever or Theme from "The Monitor" (Reprise) 1.10 The Battle of Hampton Roads
Notes
If Bruce Springsteen sowed the seeds of small-town introspection, his fellow New Jerseyites Titus Andronicus are flooding the fields. The punk quintet deconstructed postindustrial life with it's gut-wrenching debut, the Airing of Grievances. And the band's sophomore LP, the Monitor, crushes the rosy spectacles of heartland rock, peeling away the façade of barroom camaraderie to reveal an entire generation inured to those highs. The comedown is a deeply pessimistic exploration of Americana and it's now-quixotic quest for authenticity, loosely tethered to a fictional Civil War-era travel narrative spanning the trackless forests between New Jersey and Massachusetts. The band makes liberal use of quiet/loud/quiet counterpoints between vocals and instrumentation; muted guitar modulations explode with incendiary riffs and thunderous drums, then revert to quiet drone. Patrick Stickles' choked Oberstian yelp surfs the slow boil of opener "A More Perfect Union" for nearly two minutes before a wry lyrical nod ("Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to die") introduces the lead guitar. Bluesy piano rocker "Titus Andronicus Forever" and the banjo-driven stomp of "Richard II" paint apocalyptic portraits of physically and spiritually wasted communities. These heart-on-sleeve polemics are bookended by soliloquy and recitations of Abraham Lincoln's speeches that pop and hiss with warnings that "if destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be it's author and finisher." Sprawling 14-minute closer "The Battle of Hampton Roads" is named after the Civil War naval stalemate between the Monitor and Merrimack ironclads, a futile battle echoed in Stickles' narration of ever-increasing self-destructive excess: "And there is no race more human / No one throws it away like they do." for Titus Andronicus, there are no more glory days to be had in Jersey, or anywhere else. "The enemy is everywhere" is the Monitor's twice-invoked refrain, the central thesis of an album that's both uncompromisingly bleak and impossible to ignore.

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  • Yankees Do Yankees

    The Monitor is a concept album about the Civil War, sort of. It was recorded August (09) by Kevin McMahon at his studio - Marcata Recording - in New Paltz, NY. The usual suspects from the world of Titus Andronicus were all in attendance, as well as members of Ponytail, Wye Oak, Vivian Girls, and the Hold Steady. McMahon also mixed the album, and it was mastered by Greg Calbi whom the band chose because he is the only person alive who can claim involvement in both The Chemistry of Common Life by Fucked Up and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell by Meat Loaf!Youget the picture.

  • New Jersey is everywhere

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