Therapy? - Crooked Timber Ever reliant Northern Irish rockers Therapy? are back again on what
is unbelievably their 12th, yes 12th, studio album. The Therapy? story
is This outing is much more in line with their very earliest releases (Babyteeth and Pleasure Death) and 1999's Suicide Pact:You First. That is to say it is the sound of a band who are making exactly the album that they want to. A band who has nothing left to lose. It is brilliantly held together by Michael McKeegans groovy fuzzy bass parts as well as Neil (Super) Coopers fantastically tight drumming. For once the guitars actually take a bit of a back seat. The melodies are not so prevalent either instead opting for more of a jam feel to many tracks (one track, Magic Mountain, is a ten minute long instrumemtal).
This is a rock album with a bass, a guitar and some drums. It is proper
rock and roll. Ditched is the polished sound of some earlier albums
(noticeably Troublegum, Semi-Detached etc). On the whole it is quite
a dark affair really. You only need to look at some of the track titles
to see that (The Head That Tried To Strangle Itself, Enjoy The Struggle,
I Told You I Was Ill). Infact in places it reminded me of (the vastly
under-rated) Eat Me, Drink Me album by Marilyn Manson in So yes, not many bands can say that on their 12th album they are still
evolving and coming up with the goods. Therapy? have pulled something Richard Bull http://www.therapyquestionmark.co.uk
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