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10.0
78364
10.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
This is music that wants to be read as a text, and deserves to be
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10.0
78382
10.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
The album, like The Monitor writ large, is a story that’s more complex than any rock opera yet composed, which reveals itself differently, more deeply, after numerous familiarizing listens
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10.0
78393
10.0 |
Gig Soup
“The Most Lamentable Tragedy” is intentively sprawling, but one does not need to understand the inner workings of greek mythology to appreciate the record
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9.1
78367
9.1 |
Paste Magazine
Stickles puts it all on the table, ready to blame, excuse, forgive and destroy himself perhaps as an example for us when we’re trying to decide how to deal with our own imperfections
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9.1
78440
9.1 |
Pretty Much Amazing
One of this year’s greatest rock records
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9.0
78430
9.0 |
Uncut
New bards of New Jersey visit the heart of madness on brawny, baroque concept album
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9.0
78365
9.0 |
The 405
The feeling that I get when I get through it all fills my heart to overflow
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9.0
78366
9.0 |
Exclaim
If you truly immerse yourself in Titus Andronicus' magnum opus — and you should — closing track "Stable Boy" will break your heart
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9.0
78487
9.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Takes all of the band’s pent up rage and just lets it fly. It’s Titus Andronicus at their most liberated
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9.0
78517
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Stretched across five acts, The Most Lamentable Tragedy is an exhausting affair but then it absolutely must be so
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9.0
78707
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
What other band is coming out with material this self-lacerating or far-reaching, and having the songs to back it up?
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8.3
78497
8.3 |
A.V. Club
You can hear, see, feel Titus Andronicus trying their damnedest, and when the band’s talented musicians aren’t interrupted for the sake of concept, that enthusiasm and the resulting excellent songs pass infectiously to the listener
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8.1
78375
8.1 |
Pitchfork
It's taken five years, but they've finally answered the grand expectations created by The Monitor
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8.0
78429
8.0 |
Under The Radar
Never less than interesting and rarely less than thrilling
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8.0
78480
8.0 |
Spin
An album that sums up everything about why Titus Andronicus works
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8.0
78474
8.0 |
NOW
Throughout the 29 tracks, lead singer Patrick Stickles unpacks his battles with mental illness and depression via rousing punk rock
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8.0
78404
8.0 |
The Skinny
What could have easily been an exercise in pretension is instead filtered through the appealing mediums of heartland rock and Jersey basement punk
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8.0
78520
8.0 |
No Ripcord
The album is one of the more compassionate, prideful and ultimately moving depictions of mental illness on record in recent years
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8.0
78546
8.0 |
Clash
Sad, contemplative and euphoric in equal measure, 'The Most Lamentable Tragedy' is a true triumph
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8.0
78495
8.0 |
All Music
Anyone who doubted they were one of the major bands of our day will doubtless be convinced after a couple spins of The Most Lamentable Tragedy
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8.0
78989
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
A studiously conceived album
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8.0
79403
8.0 |
State
A most assured triumph
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7.0
78489
7.0 |
Earbuddy
The Most Lamentable Tragedy is not Titus Andronicus’ The Monitor, it’s not even Local Business. It’s not terrible, but it’s also not worth over 90 minutes of listening
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7.0
78414
7.0 |
NME
Ferocious, 29-track, five-act tale of a depressive, nameless protagonist and his doppelgänger
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7.0
78479
7.0 |
PopMatters
Titus Andronicus deliver a massive, sprawling opus dealing with lead vocalist Patrick Stickles’ mental health issues that is often as frustrating, and satisfying, as the disorder itself
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7.0
78457
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
A shaggy chorale, a piano ballad, organ drones and Celtic touches
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6.0
78465
6.0 |
Spectrum Culture
It’s not the classic that Stickles seems to think it is, but there’s some damn fine rock songs in here. Sometimes, that’s all you need to lift your spirits
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6.0
78368
6.0 |
The Guardian
It’s a laudable aim, but what they’ve ended up with instead is an album that fits the age of the playlist and the individual track purchase, its good songs ripe for cherry-picking and tearing out of context
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6.0
78510
6.0 |
The Observer
Mostly this lament is no tragedy, but a spirited two-fingers; a celebration of the artistic payload of atypical brain chemistry
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6.0
78700
6.0 |
The Irish Times
At 92 minutes, even the most devoted of fans will find this an arduous and often repetitive listen
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4.0
78734
4.0 |
DIY
Ambition doesn’t always equal perfection. Rock operas have their place, but this isn’t the pick of the bunch
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4.0
78692
4.0 |
The Independent
There’s a brief overture of droning dischord before singer Patrick Stickles unveils a series of furious punk blurts delivered in a laryngitic howl reminiscent of The Young Ones’ Vyvyan
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4.0
78386
4.0 |
Q
While there's throat-shredding fervour, it becomes a crazily over-extended blur of goofy anthemics. Print edition only
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