Photo Credit: Ray Concepcion
Titus Andronicus have released a video for their new single An Anomaly, another taste of their upcoming album The Will to Live.
“The titular ‘anomaly’ refers to the perversion of certain ‘natural’ impulses that have occurred within us humans upon taking ourselves out of the food chain, and the natural world in general,” says Patrick Stickles. “A lion killing and eating a wildebeest is not an act of evil, or even malice. Such imperatives are programmed into the very core of the wild animal. This drive exists within us also, but we have gone astray in not only holding on to this primal thirst for violence beyond the point of its utility, but expanding upon and fortifying it by way of our ever-more terrible technological advances, up to and including the invention of the atom bomb. If you want to know the true nature of that which we call ‘the Devil,’ that is where I would start.”
The Will to Live is due for release on 30th September 2022 via Merge Records, available to pre-order HERE.
