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.