The Monitor
- Titus Andronicus
- Band Name: Titus Andronicus
- Record Label: XL
- Release Date: Mar 9, 2010
- Summary: The first full-length album on XL Recordings for the rock band from New Jersey was named after a warship that fought during the American Civil War.
- Record Label: XL
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 29 out of 32
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Mixed: 3 out of 32
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Negative: 0 out of 32
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100Titus Andronicus have created an album that will grip the listener, carry them along on a tide of spit and blood and youthful aggression, and leave them dazed and exhausted at the end, with no other option but to start the record all over again.
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80Encyclopedic US indie rock--American Civil War, Walt Whitman, Hold Steady, Shakespeare all included.
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80The band have taken Bruce Springsteen's influence, twisted and distorted it and made a quite remarkable album that lives up both to its rebellious, riotous ambition and its rich musical heritage.
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60Neither a home run, then, nor the dreaded sophomore slump, The Monitor is, it is probably more fair to say, the album that finds the band maturing beyond the precocious triumph of their debut by first having to pass through their awkward, gangly adolescent phase.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 15
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Mixed: 0 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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Rob10Messy, confused, angry, brilliant.
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