The Monitor
by Titus Andronicus
  • Record Label: XL
  • Release Date: Mar 9, 2010
User Score
7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 105 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 87 out of 105
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 105
  3. Negative: 16 out of 105

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Awards & Rankings

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#55 Best Album of 2010
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#61 Most Discussed Album of 2010
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#74 Most Shared Album of 2010

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Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. MSN Consumer Guide (Robert Christgau)
    91
    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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  2. Clash Music
    90
    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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  3. Drowned In Sound
    90
    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.
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