DOWNLOAD: Titus Andronicus

By Tankboy in Arts & Entertainment on Feb 8, 2010 10:00PM

We were big fans of the debut album from New Jersey boys Titus Andronicus with its swirling vats of blood spattered and screeching arena punk. Their new album, The Monitor, is set to come out in early March and it's a slightly more focused affair in that it's production is a little more polished, but that hasn't rubbed the rough edged delivery away. In fact, sonically, the new disc bears a resemblance to Conor Oberst's Desaparecidos* had that group gained a penchant for penning 6+ minute epics churning with fury and the fearlessness to throw whatever works, including boozy brass sections, into the mix. Call it what you will -- we're going with prog-punk -- we think you'll agree it's pretty arresting. Here's an advance treat of the new disc for you to swim around in.

MP3: Titus Andronicus "Four Score And Seven Part One"
MP3: Titus Andronicus "Four Score And Seven Part Two"

Titus Andronicus will play a free in-store on March 13 at Reckless Records, 1532 N Milwaukee, 4 p.m., FREE, all ages

*Just read through the band's own bio for this record, after writing the above, and couldn't help but laugh out loud at this quote:

Blah blah blah Springsteen blah blah blah beer blah blah blah beard blah blah blah Shakespeare yadda yadda yadda Seinfeild blah blah blah Conor Oberst in a vat of acid blah blah blah books.