Titus Andronicus The Monitor

"[I]t's a big-idea album that feels small and personable, even as it's kicking you in the shin."
4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he last-minute-on-Earth urgency makes it gauchely thrilling..."
Paste (magazine) (p.58) - "These heart-on-sleeve polemics are bookended by soliloquy and recitations of Abraham Lincoln's speeches that pop and hiss....An album that's both uncompromisingly bleak and impossible to ignore..."
Pitchfork (Website) - "New Jersey's Titus Andronicus split the emotional atom with anthemic chants, rousing sing-alongs, celebrations of binge drinking, marathon song titles, broken-hearted duets, punked-up Irish jigs, and classic rock lyric stealing."
The Rolling Stones (p.72) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he band fires away, all martial snares, raging guitars and spit-spraying hollers, punk noise carved by folk roots."
Clash (Magazine) - "Some of the riffs are quite incredible, and the general effect of the whole album is that the listener will want to weep and dance simultaneously. Simply brilliant."