LP: Titus Andronicus - The Monitor 2 LP VG+

Cond: 2Lps both VG+ To Ex, Sleeve is VG+

Notes: "Titus Andronicus appear to similarly intend The Monitor to be their masterpiece. Like any potential masterpiece that has ever been worth a damn, it is constructed with all the makings of a disaster. Running a full 20 minutes longer than its predecessor, despite only containing one extra track (10 to Airing’s nine), The Monitor is epic in size, sound and scope. A loose concept album nominally based around the American Civil War as a portentous metaphor for the country’s current state of divisive anger and turmoil, The Monitor is loaded with broad, sweeping proclamations on the state of humanity, the country, history (“there is no race more human, no one throws it away like they do”). Since the very concept of this particular concept album is an especially abstract one, there is actually very little tying the text together as a distinct narrative. More unifying, overall, than any of the album’s lyrics are the various historic speeches quoted throughout; passages from the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman read, in a nice touch, by visiting guest stars like the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn and Vivian Girls’ Cassie Ramone, recorded as if uncovered from a dusty vinyl archive." -Popmatters

https://www.popmatters.com/121912-titus-andronicus-the-monitor-2496176071.html