Titus Andronicus by Nicole Rifkin
Titus Andronicus returned last month with We’re Coming Back.
Titus Andronicus have set their new album The Will To Live for release on September 30th.
Much of the record comes from stark contrasts in Patrick Stickles’ life – the clarity of a healthy mental well-being regimen and a consistent band line-up of Liam Betson, R.J. Gordon and Chris Wilson – and the painful tragedy of Matt ‘Money’ Miller’s passing.
“Certain recent challenges, some unique to myself and some we have all shared, but particularly the passing of my dearest friend, have forced me to recognise not only the precious and fragile nature of life, but also the interconnectivity of all life,” Stickles elaborates.
“Loved ones we have lost are really not lost at all, as they, and we still living, are all component pieces of a far larger continuous organism, which both precedes and succeeds our illusory individual selves, united through time by (you guessed it) the will to live.”
“Recognition of this self-evident truth demands that we extend the same empathy and compassion we would wish for ourselves outward to every living creature, even to those we would label our enemies, for we are all cells in the same body, sprung from a common womb, devoted to the common cause of survival.”
“Naturally, though, our long-suffering narrator can only arrive at this conclusion through a painful and arduous odyssey through Hell itself – this is a Titus Andronicus record, after all.”
The Will To Live tracklist:
My Mother is Going to Kill Me
(I’m) Screwed
I Can Not Be Satisfied
Bridge and Tunnel
Grey Goo
Dead Meat
An Anomaly
Give Me Grief
Baby Crazy
All Through the Night
We’re Coming Back
69 Stones
