Troubadour

With “Moab,” Tiberius shows off their swirling mix of styles, transmuting the tumbling layers of instrumentation into something that feels both catchy and cathartic. The track announces itself with roiling guitars, leaning into the sun-fried country-gaze style of bands like Wednesday or feeble little horse, but they don’t stay fully rooted in that lane. Later, they mix in jangly, chorus-soaked indie guitars, ringing out alongside pedal steel, banjos, and sawing fiddles, while the track’s final minutes descend into a feedback-soaked implosion, burying Wright’s vocals under electrifying layers of noise. Meanwhile, Wright’s lyrics are detailed and diaristic, as if they were written stream-of-consciousness straight from their inner monologue. Wright repeated howls of “I give up” act as both a refrain and a weary declaration of exhaustion and frustration, feeling like a keening form of emotional bloodletting. - Caleb Campbell Under the Radar Magazine

The new lineup of the band is gearing up to release their first LP altogether (Wright’s fifth as Tiberius overall), and they’ve adopted an earthy, alt-country inflection that suits Wright’s tremulous voice perfectly. Troubador‘s rollicking lead single is called “Sag,” and it’s an absolute knockout, carrying that same rootsy spark that once made Cardinal such a hit. - Zac Djamoos The Alternative

Remember that time you first heard your favourite band? Remember the prickles on your neck and the rising chills and waves of euphoria that seemed to crash against each other? Remember playing that one song over and over, pausing it to catch the lyrics so you could sing along? Tiberius is your new favourite band. - Trev Elvin God Is In the TV

In “Sag” Wright distills the agony of band life–the tantalizing proximity to success, the toll it can take on your psyche–into punchy couplets. There’s a great line about “dragging amps and dragging ass,” and once it’s time to “play a show, play a show, play a show,” they sound utterly exhausted - Dillon Riley Allston Pudding

Tiberius creates a lot of tension and blooming sounds in their songs by genre-bending, mixing that twang with hard riffs, living in pockets of tiny country hooks that can bend to spacey or slightly harder tones. It’s a welcoming range of sounds to process a wide range of emotions. - Jonah Evans POST-TRASH

They’re working in this territory where Americana grabs a bit more weight, taking a genre and giving it a little bite, capturing the genre’s ability to rock in the live setting and putting that to tape. - Nathan Lankford Austin Town Hall

Boston’s Tiberius have developed a style of music they call ‘farm emo’. A combination of indie rock, punk and psychedelic sensibilities tied together by alt-country twang and as capable of rich ambient drift as it is punk fury or confessional emotion. - Jon Doyle Various Small Flames

Troubadour is an emotionally vulnerable genre-bending record that delivers just the right amount of angst and twang. - Joseph Mastell Jr. Out Front Magazine

I'm going to add it to my - Chris Ingallis PopMatters

Originally a solo outlet for Rutland, Vermont’s Brendan Wright (they/them), Tiberius has grown into a four-piece. Eschewing the scrappier elements of Wright’s teenage efforts, their new road-tested material absorbs Punk, Psychedelic, and Country influences to create something they jokingly call “Farm Emo.” The result is brilliantly eclectic, tapping into a rustic and confessional Indie Folk sound that could appeal to fans of their labelmates Frog, CIAO MALZ, and Avery Friedman, before stamping on the distortion pedal to explore a jagged and sometimes sprawling Alternative Rock sound that may bring Sioux Falls or Pinegrove to mind. - Mitch Mosk Atwood Magazine

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