Titus Andronicus Announce Seventh Album 'The Will To Live', Share New Single (I'm) Screwed
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Nicole Rifkin
Titus Andronicus have announced their long-awaited seventh studio album.
'The Will To Live' will arrive via Merge Records on September 30 and feature the new single (I'm) Screwed, which unfurls around driving guitars, soaring solos, and some fist-pumping gang vocals on the chorus. Head below to view the accompanying video from director Ray Concepcion. Commenting on it, frontman Patrick Stickles said:
"In (I'm) Screwed, we are introduced to the narrator of 'The Will To Live' at the moment he realises the walls are closing in. Be it real or imagined, he feels the pressure building on all sides, a feeling to which many of us can relate, I imagine. His faith and fortitude are tested like never before, and the narrative of the album will reveal whether that pressure crushes him or produces a diamond."
Produced by Stickles alongside Howard Bilerman at hotel2tango in Montreal, the follow-up to 2019's 'An Obelisk' was created partly as an attempt to process the 2021 death of Matt "Money" Miller, a founding member of Titus Andronicus and Stickles' closest cousin. He added:
"Certain recent challenges, some unique to myself and some we have all shared, but particularly the passing of my dearest friend, have forced me to recognise not only the precious and fragile nature of life, but also the interconnectivity of all life.
"Loved ones we have lost are really not lost at all, as they, and we still living, are all component pieces of a far larger continuous organism, which both precedes and succeeds our illusory individual selves, united through time by (you guessed it) the will to live. Recognition of this self-evident truth demands that we extend the same empathy and compassion we would wish for ourselves outward to every living creature, even to those we would label our enemies, for we are all cells in the same body, sprung from a common womb, devoted to the common cause of survival.
"Naturally, though, our long-suffering narrator can only arrive at this conclusion through a painful and arduous odyssey through Hell itself – this is a Titus Andronicus record, after all."
The New Jersey rockers returned in June with a cover of Cock Sparrer's 1982 song We’re Coming Back, which also features on the LP. They'll support the release with a North American tour in the fall. Head here for details.
'The Will To Live' tracklist:
1. My Mother is Going to Kill Me
2. (I'm) Screwed
3. I Can Not Be Satisfied
4. Bridge and Tunnel
5. Grey Goo
6. Dead Meat
7. An Anomaly
8. Give Me Grief
9. Baby Crazy
10. All Through the Night
11. We're Coming Back
12. 69 Stones
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