Titus andronicus (often stylized as +@) is a indie/punk/hardcore/noise band from Mahwah, NJ that is essentially the musical project of  frontman Patrick Stickles. His lyrics are generally self-deprecating and dense; full of esoteric historical, literary, and autobiographical references that relate to his struggles with manic depression and drug addiction/alcoholism. They also have a penchant for shouty, repetitive, anthemic choruses and Springsteen-esque bombast. So as much as they are really accessible, there's also a lot of depth to dig for, which is really fun and makes them a very re-listenable band. They're also very self-referential so listening chronologically is a good idea.

Their first album is the airing of grievances, it's p lo-fi but it's really fun and similar to the monitor which you've already heard a good amount of. Standouts tracks include Fear and Loathing in Mahwah NJ, My Time outside the womb, Titus Andronicus, No Future parts I and II, and Albert Camus.

The monitor is really great, probably their most accessible and maybe best album but they don't play that much off of it lately, like 2-3 tracks per show. (he's probably sick of it and/or resents its popularity). It's a loose concept album about the civil war, which doubles for a metaphor about the war that goes on in his own head as he deals with being bipolar and his failedattempt to escape his depression by moving to a new town. Standout tracks are... all of them.

So then local business is a more stripped down and simple punk record, it isn't bad but it's imo their weakest LP, some of the songs are good but they don't come across that well on studio recordings to me. But it's still worth listening to a little bit and they still play shit from it. I didn't include the whole thing in the list, just the best of.

So if the monitor seemed ambitious, their latest album from 2015, the most lamentable tragedy, makes it look small time by comparison. It's a 93-minute, 29-track, full-on rock opera in five acts, complete with a confusing plot about a protagonist known only as "our hero" who is visited by a mysterious doppelganger of himself who appears to have his whole life figured out. There are dream sequences and interlude tracks, a load of self-references and all sorts of other crazy shit . It was made under the impression that it's very likely to be their last album ever, so it is very much a final statement of everything the band is and ever was. Despite all that, it's actually kind of a return to form, and contains a lot of their most straightforward and poppy tracks yet. It's worth giving a listen to all the way through at least once, but after that I would suggest getting more of a feel for the aforementioned more pop-leaning tracks ( such as: no future part IV, fatal flaw, fired up, dimed out, come on Siobhan) because that's the stuff that they'll actually play anyway.