Titus Andronicus

Titus Andronicus – The Monitor (10th Anniversary Remastered Edition) (2010/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 20, 2023 · Comments off

In March of 2010, XL Recordings released Titus Andronicus’ epic second album THE MONITOR, immediately elevating the upstart New Jersey rock band to legendary status.

In late 2019, loose plans began for a 10th anniversary reissue. In early 2020, those plans were put on indefinite hold, for obvious reasons, and the band, whose chilling vision of America’s tribalist future would become the awful truth, was silenced.

XL new presents the 10th Anniversary Edition of The Monitor. The record has been remastered by Matthew Barnhart at Chicago Mastering Service, with the original “lost” sequence and side-breaks restored.

Since The Monitor’s release 11 years ago, it’s been celebrated as a classic of this and any other era of rock music, and it’s legacy continues to grow. We’ve been through a lot and this album remains a salve for our times.

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Titus Andronicus – The Will to Live (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · December 31, 2022 · Comments off

The Will to Live was produced by Titus Andronicus singer-songwriter Patrick Stickles and Canadian icon Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, Leonard Cohen, The Whole Nine Yards) at the latter’s Hotel 2 Tango recording studio in Montreal. Drawing on maximalist rock epics from Who’s Next to Hysteria, Bilerman and Stickles have crafted the richest, densest, and hardest hitting sound for Titus Andronicus yet. All at once, the record matches the sprawl and scope of the band’s most celebrated work, while also honing their ambitious attack to greater effect than ever before. “It may strike some as ironic we had to go to Canada to record our equivalent to Born in the USA,” quips Stickles, “but the pursuit of Ultimate Rock knows no borders.”

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