Titus Andronicus have returned with their first new music in three years: a cover of Cock Sparrer’s 1982 punk anthem ‘We’re Coming Back’. The track arrives with a music video created by the band’s Patrick Stickles in collaboration with filmmaker Ray Concepcion. Watch and listen below.
“All I can tell you right now is that Cock Sparrer gave us the most open-hearted and uplifting song in all of British punk’s second wave, perhaps even of any wave, foreign or domestic,” Stickles commented in a statement. “I have wept to this song many times over the years, and it is a joy to share our version with the world, especially since it afforded me the opportunity to work once again with the inimitable Ray Concepcion.”
“I do not claim to be any kind of athlete,” Stickles continued, “and after three intense days of shooting this video, I have been, and continue to be, more sore than ever before. It’s rough getting old, but I have never shied from suffering for my art, nor do I intend to pursue a path of such cowardice in the future.”
“It’s right there in the title,” he concluded. “There’s nothing more to say… we’re coming back.”
