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The New Jersey band doesn’t disappoint on its recently remastered and re-released debut. Mixing dead-room atmospheres and cutting guitar tones that suggest a love of Steve Albini and Mark E. Smith with a voice ripped almost directly out of Bright Eyes’ back catalog and a hidden love for meat-and-potatoes rock riffs, The Airing of Grievances is a Gordian knot of highbrow lowbrow and mid-brow influences. The best part of Titus Andronicus’ tangle of indie-kid brains and confrontational post-punk aggression is that you won’t even be tempted to unravel it…
Of course, it’s an affront to every librarian-rock indie-geek out there, but that’s exactly the point of this exercise. Titus Andronicus succeeds in making what just might be the world’s first dangerous indie-rock album.
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