Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy (2-CD)

"New Jersey rock & roll believers Titus Andronicus get top mileage from a simple idea: baiting hardcore thrust with classic-rock hooks."
"It's comprised of the punchiest, most direct songs this band has yet unleashed."
"[W]hat THE MOST LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY might really represent for Titus Andronicus is the fruition of frontman Patrick Stickles' infatuation with the grand drama of hip-hop."
4 stars out of 5 -- "As this brilliant and daring album moves forward, Stickles reopens old psychic wounds, striving to turn his intensely personal struggle into something triumphant and universal."
"It harks back to the traumatic, psychological fantasy narratives of Genesis and Pink Floyd, and the pace runs from pub rock to hardcore..."
Paste (magazine) - "There are H?sker D? hardcore punk blasts, Thin Lizzy dueling guitars, Elvis Costello wordplays-and-whimsies, Bruce Springsteen hopeful grandiosities -- and Titus Andronicus is capable of making all of them sound like they came up with all this stuff first."
Pitchfork (Website) - "They turn a great, burning eye upon the world and spare no one from their observations, not even themselves."