• Record Label: Merge
  • Release Date: Jun 21, 2019
Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
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  1. Q Magazine
    Jul 2, 2019
    60
    There are curveballs along the way--an unexpected bagpipe riff on Hey Ma, for instance--but largely this is a fast, furious record that sounds startlingly vital in these worrisome times. [Aug 2019, p.116]
  2. Jun 21, 2019
    60
    If you’re partial to a bit of blue-collar punk, this is likely to be right up your street.
  3. Jun 19, 2019
    60
    An Obelisk is by no means a bad record. Each of its songs are solid if not spectacular, and Stickles’ lyrics are always interesting, but as an album it is let down by a lack of variety. You’re left thinking that there’s probably a single great album to be made out of their last two records.
  4. Jun 18, 2019
    40
    With so many flat, unoriginal riffs and unmemorable choruses, there’s just not enough meat here to reward that approach, and despite its unrelenting volume, An Obelisk just feels empty without the wide-ranging dynamics and ambitious arrangements that have, until now, defined Titus Andronicus’s music.
User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. Dec 7, 2019
    10
    This is the most raucous and driven album yet from one of the most inconsistent bands in the scene. The poignant exposition of our complicitThis is the most raucous and driven album yet from one of the most inconsistent bands in the scene. The poignant exposition of our complicit guilt in modern America on (I Blame)Society still rocks like a **** Full Review »
  2. Jun 21, 2019
    10
    Mission accomplished! Born to bruise. Everyone's a critic but most people love guitar solos