Local Business - Titus Andronicus
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8.1 out of 10

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  • Summary: Produced by Kevin McMahon, the third full-length album for the indie rock band focuses on singer-guitarist Patrick Stickles recent life experiences, including accidental electrocution and battling an eating disorder.

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  1. Positive: 22 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 27
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  1. No Ripcord
    Oct 25, 2012
    90
    By removing much of their signature distant-sounding vocal filters, grand historical speeches, spacey drones, and tightly knit arrangements, Titus Andronicus has successfully eliminated any sonic barriers that once stood in between the band and their listeners.
  2. Prefix Magazine
    Nov 1, 2012
    80
    Local Business may be missing the epic historical bent that lent The Monitor extra credence in a crowded field of garage rock contenders, but in place of the brazen Civil War narrative is a more subtle meditation on being poor and ambitious in America.
  3. Magnet
    Jan 4, 2013
    80
    An impressive mix of high and low art, Local Business is at once outsider, mainstream, universal and massive. [No. 94, p.61]
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  4. Slant Magazine
    Oct 22, 2012
    60
    [Local Business] is full of tracks that might seem less silly were they more hot-blooded and more akin to the raging storms kicked up on The Monitor and The Airing of Grievances.

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  1. Vampire25
    9
    Titus Andronicus are a fantastic punk band. They incorporate bluesy/garage/punk/indie so perfectly, especially with this record, Local Business. This is their most tight-knit record yet. Patrick Stickles sings the truth on this album, especially on the track "My Eating Disorder", which is one of the best tracks on this album. All In All, Local Business caught me by surprise and I'm glad it did, it's Titus Andronicus' best record yet. A-… Expand

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