Monitor Overview
The Monitor is a concept album about the Civil War, "sort of", says singer Patrick Stickles. It was recorded August (09) by Kevin McMahon at his studio - Marcata Recording - in New Paltz, NY. The usual suspects from the world of Titus Andronicus were all in attendance, as well as members of Ponytail, Wye Oak, Vivian Girls, and the Hold Steady. McMahon also mixed the album, and it was mastered by Greg Calbi whom the band chose because he is the only person alive who can claim involvement in both The Chemistry of Common Life by Fucked Up and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell by Meat Loaf!
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So what have we here? In short, is a concept album about the American Civil War as an extended metaphor for a young person's journey is far from his ancestral home together in New Jersey for his new home in Boston with a timid sort of tribute to Bruce Springsteen. It does not sound very promising, is not it? Surprisingly, it is all the more surprising that "The Monitor" is largely of Titus Andronicus works and works brilliantly on time. In addition, a band that takes its name from a minormight be Shakespeare's play, a high voltage to be messy, punk band that has been added American Bar in the words of Drowned in Sound "just a huge collection of songs that felt so strong that requires distance"
The monitor is of course the great battle of the Civil War iron clad a deadlock in their equivalent Confederate CSS Virginia fought in the Battle of Hampton Roads. It is no great shock then to see an ode to 14 minutesBattle said on this album, which, in the ninth minute the bagpipes!
Forget the idea for now and ask the central question: what is the music in this way? The album begins with someone quoting Abraham Lincoln and then "a more perfect Union" bursts. Gusts of feedback in a huge drum beat injury / Riff, shame and Gaslight Anthem singer Patrick Stickles announce that "I never wanted to change the world would be set, I'm not looking for a new New Jersey / But vagrantsas we / children are born to die. "In fact, the current obsession of young American bands with the boss knows no boundaries, except in this case, the nephew of Bruce to bad happy hour with ASBO! In about 4 minutes and 10 seconds, I seem to break a Another song that could be Dropkick Murphy's. Just listen.
second song "Titus Andronicus Forever" is just 2 minutes to thrash around screaming essentially a mental guitar solo and the band "the enemy is everywhere." "Richard II"subtitled with some missing little (or extraordinary people and the folly of scale Mad (Head Hate Anthem) is one of the greatest songs ever recorded, and Pogues bring the show live every rough side of the Atlantic. "A pot to p" is a other epic 9 minutes, which contains within its borders only to the whole history of rock n roll and recognize what I have to make some new arrangement! The epic album highlight is "sign and Fore Seven", starting slowly withSickles offers a series of unprintable expletives. And 'biggest kick of a mule with a migraine and transformed into a total of Rock' n 'Roll Mayhem, where at one time Stickles announced that -
"We are all corrupt and abominable" spit like a fountain,
"It erased, defaced, desecrated and destroyed,
"Above all disappointed," I say to the mountain top
In this context, "Theme from Cheers" is actually a very nice, although somewhat anarchic pop song for good measure, becausenot Reprise 'Titus Andronicus Forever "again call it" Anyway ", and so again" The enemy is everywhere "..... This album is the work of a band whose motto is the title of this review. Titus Andronicus is a rude, crude rock bands that are all lucky to sell a disc, and would be a bit 'of Shakespearean tragedy in itself (the comparison with substitutions in this respect are Spooky) "The Monitor" is a highly inventive , lyrically and often fun to read and write, mixed with some IrishConor Oberst and more often than not at all flaky. Spin called them drunk Run stepson born on an epic Spree. I like to think that one.
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