Titus Andronicus, New Jersey, Shakespeare, and the bearded crowd's answer to Bright Eyes, turn in an energetic black and white performance video for longtime signature song "Upon Viewing Brueghel's 'Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus.'" The title's weighty, yes, and Patrick Stickles makes deep-dude eyes (in the accompanying thumbnail, he's clearly watching those melting wings with trepidation). The lyrics, though, remain enjoyably pop-existential, much like getting drunk with the high school debate team (after stealing whiskey from Daedalus's stash, natch). Stickles wants us to know "God sent [him] a vision of the future in a dream on a Saturday night" and that he sees "no reason to celebrate" because "when [he] saw it [he] wept like a child," but he could really be singing about anything because the track's Pogues-esque bar bounce remains its biggest hook.
(Via P4k.tv)
The Airing Of Grievances is out via XL.
