Breathe.Įssential tracks: “No Drums”, “In The Fog II”, “In the Air III” Summer is closer today than it was yesterday. Hecker releases the tension and you can suddenly feel that the warmth is returning. A faint hiss becomes the lynchpin of a composition, anchoring the listener as Hecker chops and discards chordal phrases. Swelling into and out of focus, melodies repeat as refractions. It snaps, hisses, and swirls sounds in and around the listener until it becomes overwhelming. Tim Hecker’s Ravedeath, 1972 washes over in a similar fashion. The Sun having retreated as far away as it will, leaving me to the hum of mechanical warmth, that dull non-sound of a heater that you choose to no longer hear blanketing everything as if in snowfall. Runners Up: Best Coast – Crazy For You, Janelle Monae – The ArchandroidĪs of this writing it is the Winter Solstice. OKAY.”Įssential Tracks: “A More Perfect Union”, “Four Score And Seven”, “No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future’” The dichotomy at the heart of Titus Andronicus can be found in the final moments of “No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future” in which the band chant “YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A LOSER” over triumphant bombast which resolves with a musical collapse into “AND. It’s also incredibly intimate and vulnerable. With The Monitor, Titus Andronicus examine our struggles with ourselves, each other, and the world through the Civil War narrative conceit. The former focusing on the bloody revenges of a Roman General coming home from a campaign against the Goths and the latter a punk rock exorcism of the demons haunting bandleader Patrick Stickles. Titus Andronicus (the Shakespeare play) and Titus Andronicus (the band) are both messy and necessary explorations of the darker aspects of humanity.
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