Talk to Patrick Stickles for even just a few minutes and you’re bound to learn something new about the world. Talk to the Titus Andronicus mainman for two hours and you’re pretty much guaranteed an entirely new worldview. Or at least an intense glimpse into his. The New Jersey-born musician – who now lives in Ridgewood, Queens in New York – formed the band in 2005 and released their first album, The Airing Of Grievances three years later. Its mix of rambunctious indie-punk and cerebral yet emotional lyrics brought the band a good deal of attention at the time. Yet if the commercial potential of that record never grew to stratospheric heights, Patrick’s ambition as a songwriter was infinite. The personal traumas detailed in 2010’s second record, The Monitor, for example, were wrapped up in ...
