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Generally favorable reviews- based on 105 Ratings
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Positive: 87 out of 105
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Mixed: 2 out of 105
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Negative: 16 out of 105
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Oct 22, 2021
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Aug 19, 2015
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Jan 2, 2013Titus Andronicus come back with something big and ambitious to say with this sophomore album. The Monitor is a sprawling record about youth and angst, and something to do partially with the civil war. From the lyrics to the loud guitar to the production, this is a great record. All In All, The Monitor is an album that needs to be played as loud as you'd like, as long as it's really loud. B+
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Dec 26, 2012Pop Matters said this wasn't a home run, clearly they're unfamiliar with baseball because this album is a grand slam. This album knocks it right out of the **** park into the mesosphere, everything you could want is here from solid lyrics to an epic bag pipe solo.
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Jan 30, 20117.6 overall rating is **** **** The people who gave this a negative score are all **** idiots.
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Oct 21, 2010The clear-cut pick for album of the year; this manages to outdo its absolutely stellar debut album in every way, and kicks your face in for a solid 65 minutes. Patrick Stickles is a songwriter and lyricist on par with the best of them, and there is not a weak track on here. Pure Brilliance.
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JoshL.Apr 13, 2010It
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RobApr 1, 2010Messy, confused, angry, brilliant.
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JoshP.Mar 24, 2010Epic and superb.
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NickRMar 15, 2010Best album of the past few years.
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EricNMar 15, 2010Absolutely stellar. It's hard to imagine a more raucous, fun, epic album will be released in 2010. A total pleasure from start to finish.
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MikeBMar 13, 2010Beautiful, haunting and invigorating.
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JoeC.Mar 13, 2010Hard driving yet the music is tuneful and catchy, and the lyrics
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AndersC.Mar 11, 2010This is a magnificent album. Just brilliant.
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HarryB.Mar 9, 2010This album works so well as a cohesive concept, but not in that over bearing "I'm an art dork who makes high brow nonsense" kind of way. More in the "I have serious things to say and the only way i know how is to write a string of incomprehensibly good songs and arrange them in chronological order". This album is special.
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MikeMMar 9, 2010Best album of the year so far, hands down. BUY THIS ALBUM!!!!
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AdamR.Mar 9, 2010Rock music that is completely unhinged and uninhibited. The sound of joy screaming through angst. Beautiful.
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It's more like sloshing or spewing, as intermittent love lookbacks evoke a social despair also contextualized by fabulous spoken epigraphs from Walt Whitman, Jefferson Davis, William Lloyd Garrison, and Young Abe Lincoln.
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Some of the riffs are quite incredible ('A More Perfect Union'), and the general effect of the whole album is that the listener will want to weep and dance simultaneously. Simply brilliant.
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The Monitor, then, is a boisterous, eloquent argument that rock music need not be dumb in order to be enjoyable, moreover, that we should be questioning and analysing our heritage rather than precariously stumbling onwards. But mostly, it's just a stupendous collection of songs; one that demands to be listened to as loudly as you can possibly get away with.