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Jersey trash rockers Titus Andronicus have a new album coming out in a month, and on cue, they’ve released a lyric video for the first single, “Local Business.” Over a montage of disparate images, frontman Patrick Stickles whinges about moving from Jersey to NYC — the realization of going over the river to become “a drop in a deluge of hipsters.” (I’ll give Stickles the benefit of the doubt and assume he’s got a very clear, non-pejorative idea of what a “hipster” is.) His phrasing is still a little awkward in places, but I’ve been listening to the track for the last hour; the band’s music has steadily been ratcheting upward in scope since their first album, but “In a Big City” consolidates all of that anthemic promise into a tight little pop song that wouldn’t feel out of place on the radio next to fun.’s “We Are Young.” You don’t always fifteen minutes to make a point about life and death, not when you’ve got snide lines like “I’ve been building bombs / Between beers and blow jobs.” That’s how it feels sometimes, huh? Local Business is out on October 22.