Pitchfork给了这张8.5分,可谓上半年必听专辑.Titus Andronicus的声音中带着Bright Eyes和Sunset Rubdown相结合的腔调,主唱经常狼吞虎咽的用紧密的一口气来喷吐歌词,Pitchfork形容其声音像地狱深处的Conor Oberst的吼叫,真的很贴切,的确是很情绪化的演唱.乐队的现场也可以说是最buzz的,但每首歌其间你却可以听到漫不经心的弦乐演奏以及隐约的民谣和声,暴躁却惬意的快感,后面几首迷幻歌曲更让专辑显得奇特.
by Tim Sendra
Remember the Keystone Kops and the way their paddy wagon would careen wildly down the road and all the Kops would be hanging on for dear life as they were whipped about crazily? Listening to Titus Andronicus' debut record, The Airing of Grievances, makes you think that maybe the band recorded the album in much the same way the Kops chased criminals. It's a rollicking, rambling, yowling mess of a record framed by the band's half-baked literary ambitions (check the band's name and references to Cormac McCarthy and Albert Camus) and vocalist Sarim Al-Rawi's yelping vocals (which are oddly reminiscent of Mick Jones at his most stray cat-like). In the Keystone Kops scenario, he's the wagon and the bandmembers are the ones just barely holding on. Or maybe it's more of a tug of war where everyone ends up in the mud. Either way, the wild dynamic action makes The Airing of Grievances an exhausting, entertaining listen. ...