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Titus Andronicus singer-guitarist Patrick Stickles has said that new record Local Business has no secrets and is their most personal album yet.
The band broke away from the concept album approach - 2010's The Monitor was loosely based on the Civil War - to come up with something much more autobiographical.
Stickles suffers from a disorder called "selective eating" which means that trying to eat something unfamiliar can cause him to panic and gag on his food. In a song simply entitled 'My Eating Disorder', he attempts to confront his problem head on.
Stickles told Rolling Stone magazine: "I don't see much need in dressing things up too much, hiding them behind too many metaphors. This time, I just wanted to tell it like it is, as far as I can see it.
"I started to write about [my eating disorder] largely for the reason that I don't usually like to talk about it.
"In art, there should be no secrets, really, so I decided to play out that concept in the most personal way for myself and see what was there, and hopefully in the process maybe empower some of our fans that might be dealing with similar issues, whether that's an eating disorder or any kind of bodily control thing."
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The follow-up to The Monitor is widely anticipated, as the 2010 release left listeners excited to find out where the band were going to go next.
Stickles is adamant that the song is overall a positive one. He added: "People think that eating disorders are mostly a female problem, and male eating disorders don't get a lot of coverage.
"Hopefully we can have a little bit of solidarity going on with my boys. Or girls. Whoever wants to get something positive out of the song."
Listen to Titus Andronicus' latest single below:
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