Titus Andronicus Home Alone On Halloween EP

12" EP on orange vinyl including download code, limited to 1,300 for the world. With Home
Alone on Halloween, noted rock band Titus Andronicus [hereafter +@] celebrate the
spookiest of the seasons by staring into the abyss and confronting the bone-chilling terror which lies at the haunted heart of our human experience. Bearing the justly feared catalog number MRG666, the 12-inch EP spans 31 minutes and features three tracks recorded concurrently with the group's most recent full-length A Productive Cough, offering an autumnal tableau of dread and decay to complement its LP companion's springtime visions of rebirth and new possibilities. The title track remixes A Productive Cough's hardest-rocking selection,
foregrounding its ominous strings and swelling organ and featuring a soulful new lead vocal from frequent +@ special-teams captain Matt "Money" Miller, while "Only a Hobo" plucks an oftforgotten gem from the dusty corners of the Bob Dylan songbook to paint a grim portrait of
hopes dashed and potential squandered. Eeriest of all is "A Letter Home," which, across nearly
17 minutes and more than 1,200 words, drags the listener along for a harrowing descent into
the darkness and proves definitively that this ceremony is no mere monster mash. "Death is not scary," explains +@ singer-songwriter Patrick Stickles, shaking off a cold sweat. "Everyone has
to die, but not everyone gets to die surrounded by love with the satisfaction of a life well-lived.
What frightens me, far more than ghouls or goblins, is knowing that I may yet face the former
without the comfort of the latter. When it comes to that of which nightmares are made, a
werewolf popping out of the bushes is nothing next to a life without love when it is too late to
turn back."