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Picture This – THERAPY? 2019

Posted on June 19, 2024 by JL

THERAPY?
Lokerse Feesten Festival
11 August 2019

The Irish heroes released their boisterous 16th album, named Hard Cold Fire last year.

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THERAPY: Story – All Albums

All photos by Turn Up The Volume

Northern Irish Post-Punk Heroes THERAPY? Celebrate The 30th Birthday Of Classic LP ‘TROUBLEGUM’ Today

Posted on February 7, 2024 by JL

Great longplayers from the past

7 February 2024

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Northern Irish rock mavericks Therapy? have been around like forever since
they started making lots of post-punk havoc from 1989 on. They canned/released
16 albums so far, with last year’s riff-manic Hard Cool Fire as the most recent one.

But now back in time for the 30th birthday of their magnum opus (to my ears) TROUBLEGUM. It came out exactly 30 years ago today, on 7 February 1994.
It reached #5 in the UK and in Ireland.

The Quietus said: “The infectious riffs are thrashed out with buzzsaw guitars. The bass rattles along with post-punk authority. There are layers of remarkable guitar textures, short blasts of terrifying feedback, and solos that bleed sheer anguish…  Troublegum flows like nothing else. Gravely rocking pissed-off gems fly past one after the other, blending seamlessly, never dipping in quality, with no pause for listeners to catch their breath.”

Press/promo photo

But who knows better what the album’s about in every detail than maestro Andy Cairns and his accomplishes, bassist Michael McKeegan and producer Chris Sheldon. Back in 2019, on the occasion of the LP’s 25th birthday, the trio talked to Kerrang! about each and every track. Read it all HERE.

Key singles: Screamager / Nowhere / Trigger Inside

– SCREAMAGER –

– NOWHERE –

– TRIGGER INSIDE –

FULL ALBUM

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The band will celebrate this milestone with what they still do like the best.
Rockin’ their and your ass off on tour from September on.

BUZZARD BUZZARD BUZZARD – Welsh Mavericks Stun With New Psychedelic Jaw-Dropper ‘THERAPY’

Posted on November 7, 2023 by JL

Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant

7 November 2023

Pic by Charlie Barclay Harris

Band: BUZZARD BUZZARD BUZZARD
Who: 4 Welsh mavericks who were nominated last year
the Welsh Music Prize for their debut album Backhand Deals.
You can stream it here

New single: THERAPY
It follows their Chew single shared earlier this year.

Tom Rees (frontman/songwriter): “Not surprisingly I wrote ‘Therapy’ after I had my
head squeezed like a giant cyst and years and years of backlogged pus just started oozing
out (“my father” this and “my mother” that). I was so impressed by how great I felt that I became a massive nuisance to everyone around me telling them they need to go to therapy – big “a person you kind of know telling you that you NEED to watch Breaking Bad” vibes – so this song was really an extension of that. More than anything it was a fun opportunity to be creative with imagery around feeling frustrated, and the freedom that came from getting the help to understand why.”

TUTV: This is an intoxicating groover that rotates instantly in your head with the sassy swagger, the amphetamine vigor and the high-pitched vocality of Queens Of The Stone Age.

It’s an addictive jam all the way with hysterical guitars taking over around the 4-minute mark, injecting this psych jaw-dropper with tons of electric adrenalin while the backbeat bulldozes on and on. Mental stuff. And so much cheaper than a shrink.

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Therapist ANDY CAIRNS About METALLICA Frontman JAMES HETFIELD

Posted on June 4, 2023 by JL

(Photo by Turn Up The Volume)

Kudos to riff machine James Hetfield.

Full Andy Cairns interview with Louder Than War about his influential albums here

TURN UP THE VOLUME JUKEBOX 2023 – 10 New Tracks Added Every Week

Posted on April 17, 2023 by JL

In order to not miss a beat Turn Up The Volume scans the musical
horizon daily (doing it for years now, actually) to stay in touch with
all new things sonically great and shares the results on a weekly
basis.

Check the 10 new rad tracks
added to this rad 2023 playlist.

ARTISTS

Alison Goldfrapp
Chum
Deeper
Karaba F.C.
Floral Image
Sir Bobby Jukebox
Night Beats
Cory Singer
Therapy?
Dawn Richard

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TUTV: Blog – Facebook – Instagram

Big Heart, Big Soul, Big Mouth, Big Riffs – Yes It’s THERAPY? With Their New Blustery Buster

Posted on April 13, 2023 by JL

Daily electricity to load your batteries

13 April 2023

Northern Irish rock heroes Therapy? have been around like
forever since they started making post-punk havoc in 1989.

The trio just announced album number 16. It’s baptized
HARD COLD FIRE and will hit the streets on 5th May.

Pre-order info here.

Following the first sickly sticky single Joy the Northern Irishmen launched
another new sinewy piece, titled POUNDLAND OF HOPE AND GLORY.

Andy Cairns: “This track started out as a hard take on how people lose themselves
in narratives to the point that the myth takes on greater importance than the fact.
Just like the old adage about the liar repeating the lie so much that they eventually
believe it themselves, the culture around us is bursting with fairy stories we tell
ourselves”.

A tactic copied throughout history by all sort of charlatans

TUTV: Poundland of Hope And Glory is another therapeutic jackhammer
aiming at your ears from the moment the first chord attacks your headphones.
The seasoned post-punk-noise turbo with Andy Cairns still at the wheel may have
lost some hair here and there along their tempestuous ride that started in 1989,
but they still ramble and rumble with a big heart, a big soul, a big mouth and
big riffs.

Here’s the proof.

THERAPY? – Facebook – Instagram

(Live photos by Turn Up the Volume – Lokerse Feesten Belgium, 2019)

Northern Irish Post-Punk Heroes THERAPY? Still Have Riff-Roaring ‘JOY’

Posted on March 14, 2023 by JL

New striking strokes

14 March 2023

(Photo by Turn Up The Volume)

Northern Irish rock heroes Therapy? have been around like
forever since they started making post-punk havoc in 1989.

The trio just announced album number 16. It’s baptized
HARD COLD FIRE and will hit the streets on 5th May.

Pre-order info here.

Andy Cairns (singer/guitarist): “We didn’t want to make a lockdown record because people have been through enough. When we began to rehearse these songs, we realised there was an empathetic quality to them. We wanted to make something that was a bit more relatable, and less standoffish and claustrophobic – which we have a history of, and it stands in places – but we wanted to make something more approachable and open.”

The first single is titled JOY

Cairns: “Joy started with a term from Waiting For Godot, by Samuel Beckett, this wonderful line: ‘habit is a great deadener’. I just love that word, ‘dead-en-er’. It’s an amazing word. People get themselves into these habits, and the next thing you know, their life is over and they’ve only lived in a very small circle of experience, often through choice, which is scary.”

Joy is a rumbling and riff-roaring rocker rollin’ with high-electrical panache and going in overdrive on the chorus. The Northern Irish steamroller seems to have fun, so should you.

Tune in.