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Feb 26, 2018Despite the clean production and largely decreased noise level, A Productive Cough is Titus Andronicus's freshest, wildest, most unexpected work to date.
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Mar 2, 2018The songs find charm in their universality, energy, and wit.
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Q MagazineMar 13, 2018Songs swerve through ranting country, Celtic balladry and doo-wop. And you have to raise a glass to anyone who dares defile Like A Rolling Stone by redirecting its venom inwards. [May 2018, p.114]
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Mar 6, 2018There’s still an indomitable punk fury, and A Productive Cough is the most hopeful Titus Andronicus record yet.
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Mar 6, 2018What’s interesting about A Productive Cough is how accessible it is compared with the band’s past work.
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Mar 5, 2018If you're fond of the notion of rock & roll as folk music, A Productive Cough is something you'll want to hear, an album that captures the roar of the masses in an unexpected way, and if you've loved the songs of Titus Andronicus as much as their music, you'll find this isn't quite so different as you might think.
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Feb 26, 2018It's refreshingly concise, yet fiery and lyrically on point.
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Mar 16, 2018It's not an especially varied or original offering, but it is remarkably authentic and engrossing, and for that alone, Stickles and company deserve applause.
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Mar 14, 2018Stickles and company prove once again that there is nothing more punk than doing the opposite of what’s expected. And this album meets, exceeds and plays with expectations in the way only Stickles knows how.
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Mar 5, 2018The proceedings would be a lot less palatable if they didn’t often achieve a forceful, unhinged immediacy; amid the heavy themes and brash posturing, there’s still room for the band to elbow in some loud, rousing real life.
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Feb 27, 2018Even when the band vamps for too long on "Home Alone" and their "Like a Rolling Stone" cover, the large roster of guests and collaborators rarely feels unwieldy. Instead, A Productive Cough draws strength from its collective spirit.
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Mar 2, 2018Despite occasional attempts at restraint and the fact it’s only seven songs long, A Productive Cough provides Titus Andronicus with another bold manifesto. They might have varied the volume, but they’re still railing with their customary resolve.
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Mar 5, 2018It’s half magical, lush, and wholesome, and half redundant. Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in repetitive cycles, not knowing when to quit. That moment has finally arrived for Titus Andronicus.
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Mar 5, 2018A Productive Cough is not a bad album, but it’s not Titus Andronicus’ greatest moment. Part of the problem comes from the high expectations set by the band’s previous work, and to some degree the drawn out jam sections that occasionally go on just a little too long.
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MojoFeb 26, 2018The album suffers whenever excess creeps in. [Apr 2018, p.88]
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Mar 6, 2018For all its promises of a leisurely, good time, A Productive Cough plays like a quarantine.
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MagnetApr 17, 2018Some new ideas are welcome more than a decade into the Jersey outfit's career, but they could've been used to more exciting ends. [No. 150, p.59]
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Mar 8, 2018While, undoubtedly, it took a lot of time, work and engagement to put it together, it still comes across as a throw-away release in their catalogue. It sounds like a band just switching on the recorder and jamming for a little while, then putting out some tracks.
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Mar 5, 2018A Productive Cough should have refined and furthered those musical ambitions, but basically, it didn't--they're right back where they came from in a dying scene, idolising the genre's past and ignoring its future when they could have easily been the writers of it instead.
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UncutFeb 26, 2018It would be satisfying to hail A Productive Cough as Titus Andronicus' equivalent of Who's Next--but sadly it's more "What the hell?" [Apr 2018, p.37]
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Mar 5, 2018Reaching is commendable, but ultimately this feels like a throat-clearing before better things to come.
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Mar 2, 2018Titus Andronicus have always melted together the music of their heroes, but this time it feels completely without inspiration.
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Feb 28, 2018While it's absolutely fine that he's not interested in making punk music anymore (or at least for the time being), hearing him run through the blues and rock repertoire of the 60s and 70s offers absolutely nothing that can't be achieved by just going and listening to all those great, original, records.
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Positive: 7 out of 18
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Mixed: 6 out of 18
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Negative: 5 out of 18
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Mar 4, 2018
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Mar 23, 2018If the Pogues and Modest Mouse had a big sloppy french kiss, this is what it would sound like. My new favourite album.