.i am sure this song means something but I am baffled as to what. Is it enough. Some sort of attack on nihilism and the meaninglessness of life? "Content or context". I will take the former on this the second release off the upcoming (one weeks times!) Local Business.
"Still Life With Hot Deuce and Silver Platter" has a strange herky jerky construction that gives up on the v/c/v to replace it with three separate segments, the middle of which keeps repeating "Here it goes again" though I have no idea what he is fraught over. Everything seems to be leading to a blinding denouement: "HOT DEUCE" Which refers to going number two as well. So it is not fair to say Stickles is pissed off on this track.
Stickles is something of a moralist (remember his claim that Kurt Vile shouldn't have sold a song for a commercial) and by the third section he is taking on the wide world of commercials but what does it mean? I don't think it MEANS stuff, it is more impressionistic distaff: reasons to doubt lives value.
But as always with Titus Andronicus, the music makes another point entirely, in communion lies hope and this is as addictive a singalong as you will ever ever hear. It is a melodic pounding with lots gorgeous gorgeous and a great piano break and you can't help but singalong even if maybe it is meant to be magnified solo. Plus? anybody who is rhyming masculine with mescaline is alright with me.
Grade: A
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