★★★★★
Don't be fooled into thinking that Local Business, the new album from New Jersey-based indie punkers Titus Andronicus, is somehow less ambitious just because it isn't a concept album like The Monitor, their acclaimed 2010 album which looked at a breakup through the allegorical lens of The Civil War. After all, every song that frontman Patrick Stickles writes is practically a concept album unto itself...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Titus Andronicus write long songs, with even longer titles, that have a punk intonation and an indie rock bent. The New Jersey band, who named themselves after William Shakespeare's goriest play (the Bard's attempt to please the masses), sound like Against Me in one breath, The Clash in the next, and even a bit like Elvis Costello, at times...
- www.ink19.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
In this day and age people just want to be pretty or handsome. Attractive and sexy. Desired.
- www.syffal.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
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Titus Andronicus - Local BusinessTitus Andronicus - Local BusinessRecord Label: XL Recordings
Release Date: October 23, 2012'Okay, I think by now we've established that everything is inherently useless'.
Titus Andronicus is a punk rock band. They embody everything that punk rock is and should be...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2012-11-26
★★★★★
Release Date: October 23, 2012 'Okay, I think by now we've established that everything is inherently useless'. Titus Andronicus is a punk rock band. They embody everything that punk rock is and should be. From their ramshackle delivery to their working class hero ethos, Titus Andronicus are one of the most relevant punk bands in the world today...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-11-22
★★★★★
Titus Andronicus created a world of buzz when 2010's The Monitor was released. With maximalist punk/indie rock, the ambitious album captured anthemic, rousing punk rock spirit in eight-minute jams that sometimes included harmonica, bag pipes and spoken word pieces by indie rock celebrities such as Craig Finn. As you may have guessed, the five-piece band needed a little help with that, so the album, and their debut, 2008's The Airing of Grievances, featured many guest musicians...
- www.punknews.org
2012-11-13
★★★★★
XL On Local Business, Titus Andronicus shifts their focus from the ghosts of our nation's historical scars as they did on 2010's The Monitor, to the wounds of today's modern society. Growing up in an area so rife with oblivious consumerism as Glen Rock, N.J., frontman Patrick Stickles is keenly aware of the soul rot eating away the fabric of the middle class...
- www.relix.com
2012-11-06
★★★★★
Titus Andronicus started recording their third LP on April 1st, 2012, a date their liner notes call the "rare confluence" of Palm Sunday and April Fool's Day. The epic entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem, and the day when people think it's a good idea to cover toilet seats with plastic wrap: could the band have picked a better duo of dates to commence the recording of Local Business? Titus Andronicus' first album, The Airing of Grievances, was punk for punk's sake...
- www.prefixmag.com
2012-11-05
★★★★★
Titus Andronicus has always had ambitions exceeding that of most punk bands. They're just as likely to make an album about a Civil War ship (The Monitor) as they are to write a song featuring a poop joke (the amazingly-titled "Still Life with Hot Deuce on Silver Platter"). Their music, at once shambling and epic, serves these dual purposes perfectly, and their first two albums were equal parts hilarious, angry, and soaring...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2012-10-29
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