Local Business
So while I suffered through my late morning conference call, New Jersey's Titus Andronicus took to their Tumblr to announce the upcoming release of their third full-length, Local Business. The album comes out on October 23rd via XL Recordings, to be followed by a "nationwide tour."
In the announcement, the band promises that this time around, the record will even include "moments of pure positivity, brief respites from the usual doom and gloom."
Titus Andronicus will always occupy a special place in the history of this blog. Not only are they from New Jersey and proud of it; not only is The Monitor one of my favorite records of the last several years; not only did I stop Patrick Stickles on the street in Asbury Park, right before the Jeff Mangum show, to give him a hearty handshake and to tell him just how much I loved his album; but Titus Andronicus were also the subject of this blog's first-ever post.
That post was a review of the first show of their "Screaming on Planet Titus" tour at the Stone Pony during which they performed a few of the songs that will appear on Local Business. Those songs sounded great then, which bodes very well for the new album.
Here are the boys performing Local Business track, "Upon Viewing Oregon's Landscape with the Flood of Detritus," during that Stone Pony show.
I'm Patrick's father, and I enjoyed your post back in March about the Stony Pony show, where, as you then noted, I was in attendance. I attend many of the Titus shows around here, and am usually the oldest (now 64) guy in the room. I spent some time up in New Paltz while the new record was being made and I think that Titus fans will like it - in some ways not as ambitious as The Monitor, but lots and lots of good old fashioned rock 'n roll.
ReplyDeleteRegards, Bob Stickles
That's great to hear about the new record. I enjoyed the first two albums, especially The Monitor, a great deal.
DeleteI'm often on the older end at the shows I attend, but I love seeing bands play live.
Thanks so much for reading and for taking the time to let me know what you thought.