The Most Lamentable Tragedy

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The Most Lamentable Tragedy
The Most Lamentable Tragedy - cover.jpg
Studio album by
Titus Andronicus
ReleasedJuly 28, 2015 (2015-07-28)
RecordedSept. 1, 2014 – Feb. 16, 2015
Genre
Length92:36
Label Merge
Producer Kevin McMahon & Adam Reich
Titus Andronicus chronology
Local Business
(2012)		The Most Lamentable Tragedy
(2015)		 A Productive Cough
(2018)

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 manic depression.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.7/10 [3]
Metacritic 79/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The A.V. Club B+ [7]
Exclaim! 9/10 [8]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
NME 7/10 [9]
Pitchfork 8.1/10 [10]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Spin 8/10 [12]
Uncut 9/10 [13]

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

PublicationAccoladeYearRank
Stereogum The 50 Best Albums of 20152015#17 [14]
American Songwriter The 50 Best Albums of 20152015#24 [15]
Consequence of Sound The 50 Best Albums of 20152015#9 [15]
Spin (magazine) The 50 Best Albums of 20152015#32 [15]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Patrick Stickles and arranged by Titus Andronicus except "I Lost My Mind (DJ)" by Daniel Johnston, "A Pair of Brown Eyes" by Shane MacGowan and Auld Lang Syne (traditional)

Disc One - Act I: Set Aside or Miserable and Water-Buried
No.TitleLength
1."The Angry Hour"1:42
2."No Future Part IV: No Future Triumphant"4:53
3."Stranded (On My Own)"4:24
4."Lonely Boy"5:21
5."I Lost My Mind (+@ )"4:18
6."Look Alive"0:33
Disc One - Act II: Beside Himself
No.TitleLength
7."The Magic Morning"1:00
8."Lookalike"0:48
9."I Lost My Mind (DJ)"1:36
10."Mr. E. Mann"3:49
11."Fired Up"4:05
12."Dimed Out"2:57
13."More Perfect Union"9:39
14."[ intermission ]"1:17
Disc Two - Act III: Down by the Seaside
No.TitleLength
1."Sun Salutation"0:55
2."(S)HE SAID / (S)HE SAID"9:11
3."Funny Feeling"3:24
4."Fatal Flaw"3:27
5."Please"1:14
Disc Two - Act IV: The Other Side or A Midsummer Night's Dream
No.TitleLength
6."Come On, Siobhán"3:43
7."A Pair of Brown Eyes"3:16
8."Auld Lang Syne"1:46
9."I'm Going Insane (Finish Him)"1:58
Disc Two - Act V: Decide
No.TitleLength
10."The Fall"0:47
11."Into the Void (Filler)"4:36
12."No Future Part V: In Endless Dreaming"4:40
13."[ seven seconds ]"0:07
14."Stable Boy"6:52
15."A Moral"0:30
Total length:92:36

Charts

Chart (2015)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [16] 164

Personnel

Titus Andronicus

Additional musicians

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