The Most Lamentable Tragedy is the fourth studio album by New Jersey punk rock band Titus Andronicus, released on July 28, 2015, through Merge Records. It is a rock opera in five acts that follows "Our Hero", a man who is visited by his doppelganger and goes through considerable life experiences and dream sequences, all acting as a metaphor for bipolar disorder.
Reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from music critics, TMLT has received an average score of 79, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Tiny Mix Tapes gave it a perfect 10/10, saying "TMLT feels like the Titus Andronicus record par excellence, it pushes and shoves at the boundaries of what such a record could or should conceivably sound like," while Pitchfork Media noted, "A 29-track, 93-minute rock opera that immediately restored their claims to outsized ambition, as only a 29-track, 93-minute rock opera might."
Accolades Publication Accolade Year Rank Stereogum The 50 Best Albums of 2015 2015 #17 American Songwriter The 50 Best Albums of 2015 2015 #24 Consequence of Sound The 50 Best Albums of 2015 2015 #9 Spin (magazine) The 50 Best Albums of 2015 2015 #32
Track listing
Charts Chart (2015) Peak position
Personnel
Titus Andronicus Patrick Stickles – lead vocals, guitar, electronics, chord organ, harmonica, glockenspiel Adam Reich – lead guitar, vocals, percussion, organ, mandolin, glockenspiel Jonah Maurer – guitar Julian Veronesi – bass guitar, vocals Eric Harm – drums, vocals
Additional musicians Ryan Weisheit – flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone Owen Pallett – violin, viola Elio DeLuca – piano, organ, electric piano Yoni David – percussion Alex Levine, Carrie-Anne Murphy, Catherine Herrick, Matthew Miller, R.J. Gordon, Ryan Levine – vocals
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