Bad news if you like vigorous fist-pumping: on their upcoming A Productive Cough, Titus Andronicus have abandoned their “lead-footed punk anthems of yesteryear” (as their bio puts it) to focus on subtler, more spacious ballads. Appropriately, Patrick Stickles, the singer/songwriter behind the decade-old New Jersey band, is supporting the album with a stripped-down, two-person acoustic tour that comes to the Great Hall on March 13.
Though they’ve pared down, the band (which are also apparently going by +@ now) haven’t shrunk their ambitions. Keep in mind that their idea of punk anthems are triple-LP rock operas about dead presidents and doppelgängers. First single Number One (In New York) is, fittingly, a 10-minute swelling slow-burner with no chorus.
So it’s not exactly a Bon Iver (or Justin Timberlake, whose Man Of The Woods tour has also just been announced) retreat to a wood cabin. It’s soul-baring singer/songwriter music the Titus Andronicus way – like if the Pogues read more philosophy.
March 13 at the Great Hall (1087 Queen West), doors 8 pm. $16.50. ticketfly.com, rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com.
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