View basket “Songs From Better Days” has been added to your basket. The Will to Live Titus Andronicus SKU: 26.00 31.00 £26.00 - £31.00 £26.00 - £31.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Merge Records Released Date: 30th September 2022 Buying Format: 2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Buying Options Choose an option2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code2LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download CodeClear The Will to Live quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Indies only vinyl is on silver & black galaxy effect vinyl. Both LPs come with a Side D etching in triple gatefold jacket + full album download. The Will to Live was produced by Titus Andronicus singer-songwriter Patrick Stickles and Canadian icon Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, Leonard Cohen, The Whole Nine Yards) at the latter’s Hotel 2 Tango recording studio in Montreal. Drawing on maximalist rock epics from Who’s Next to Hysteria, Bilerman and Stickles have crafted the richest, densest, and hardest hitting sound for Titus Andronicus yet. All at once, the record matches the sprawl and scope of the band’s most celebrated work, while also honing their ambitious attack to greater effect than ever before. “It may strike some as ironic we had to go to Canada to record our equivalent to Born in the USA,” quips Stickles, “but the pursuit of Ultimate Rock knows no borders. ”For his recent stretch of personal stability, he credits a newfound domestic bliss and steadfast mental health regimen (“Lamictal is a hell of a drug”) as well as the endurance of what has become the longest-running consistent lineup of Titus Andronicus—Liam Betson on guitar, R.J. Gordon on bass, and Chris Wilson on drums. On the crueler side of the coin, however, The Will to Live was created in large part as an attempt to process the untimely 2021 death of Matt “Money” Miller, the founding keyboardist of the band and Stickles’ closest cousin. Stickles explains: “The passing of my dearest friend forced me to recognize not only the precious and fragile nature of life, but also the interconnectivity of all life. 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.” “Naturally, though, our long-suffering narrator can only arrive at this conclusion through a painful and arduous odyssey through Hell itself,” he qualifies. “This is a Titus Andronicus record, after all.” When Titus Andronicus made their long-awaited return to the stage in 2021, it was to celebrate the anniversary of their landmark breakthrough The Monitor, and the act of playing that material before an ecstatic audience left the band determined to deliver an album that would reach for those same lofty heights, relying this time less on the reckless fire of youth and more on the experience and perspective at which a band only arrives with a thousand shows under their belt. Through this golden ratio, Titus Andronicus have arrived at the peak of their creative powers. From its adrenalizing opening instrumental “My Mother Is Going to Kill Me” to its wistful closing benediction “69 Stones,” The Will to Live conjures a vast landscape and sends the listener on a rocket ride from peak to vertiginous peak. Rock fans will find themselves a feast, whether they crave barn-burning rock anthems such as “(I’m) Screwed” and “All Through the Night,” rapid-fire lyrical gymnastics (“Baby Crazy”), symphonic punk throwdowns (“Dead Meat”), or an adventurous excursion into the darkness that delivers thrills as it breezes boldly past the 7 minute mark, “An Anomaly.” As if that wasn’t enough gas for the tank, The Will to Live features sterling contributions from members of the Hold Steady, Arcade Fire, and the E Street Band, as well as duets with the aforementioned Betson, former Titus Andronicus drummer Eric Harm, and Josée Caron of the Canadian rock band Partner. The album comes packaged with gorgeous triple-gatefold artwork by illustrious illustrator Nicole Rifkin, a Hieronymus Bosch–inspired triptych which mirrors the three-part structure of the narrator’s perilous voyage across the corresponding three sides of vinyl. All together, this esteemed ensemble, with Stickles and Bilerman determined and defiant at the helm, have found The Will to Live—now, the question is… will you? Artist Titus Andronicus Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Merge Records Buying Options 2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code , 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Format 2LP , Coloured Vinyl , Gatefold Sleeve , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings 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 Stones SIDE D Etching Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Titus Andronicus and more from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Titus Andronicus An Obelisk Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Merge Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 20th June 2019 £20.00 - £21.00 Select options Titus Andronicus An Obelisk £20.00 - £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Merge Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code 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