12 February 2015
Newsdesk
Out 23rd March, Therapy?’s first recording for new label Amazing Record Co., Disquiet comprises 11 tracks of charged, in-your-face, bruisingly melodic punk/metal.
A sequel of sorts to the band’s million-selling 1994 album Troublegum, it is by turns confrontational, challenging, vengeful and venomous, a visceral and utterly compelling document of a confident band operating at the peak of their powers.
Produced by Tom Dalgety (Royal Blood/Band of Skulls/Turbowolf) at Blast studios in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, it’s both the most accessible record Therapy? have made in two decades, and a reaffirmation of their healthy respect for noise, chaos and unsettling psychodrama.
“We wanted to write something a bit more anthemic again,” explains vocalist/guitarist Cairns. “In May last year we did a 20th anniversary tour for the Troublegum album, and it was completely sold out, and it was great hearing those songs sung back at us, and seeing what they meant to people. Clearly it would be idiocy for us to attempt to recreate Troublegum, because that was a different era, and a different band line-up, but the starting point for this album for me was thinking ‘What would the protagonist of Troublegum be doing twenty years on?’ Our last two albums [2009’s Crooked Timber and 2012’s A Brief Crack of Light] were more experimental and diverse, and we already knew that he wanted to go back to more ‘song’-based stuff this time around, so that conceptual idea dovetailed perfectly with what we planned in terms of the musical direction.”
“In constructing Disquiet we went back to the old-fashioned way in which Troublegum was written,” explains Cairns, “whereby I’d take my guitar, play a song, record it on my phone and then send the song to the guys ‘finished’, in terms of lyrics, melody and guitar chords. We started with 19 songs, recorded 18 of them and then worked with Tom [Dalgety] to select the ones that best represented what we were trying to do with this record. And we’re genuinely delighted with how things have turned out.”
Therapy?’s UK tour in support of Disquiet runs late March through April. Dates listed below:
TOUR DATES MARCH/APRIL 2015
BRISTOL – FRIDAY 27TH MARCH – THE MARBLE
GLOUCESTER – SATURDAY 28TH MARCH – GUILDHALL
BRIGHTON – TUESDAY 31ST MARCH – CONCORDE 2 – SUPPORT FROM TRIGGERFINGER
LONDON – 1ST APRIL – SCALA - SUPPORT FROM TRIGGERFINGER
PORTSMOUTH – 12TH APRIL - WEDGEWOOD
CARDIFF – 13TH APRIL – THE GLOBE
READING – 14TH APRIL – SUB 89
BIRMINGHAM -16TH APRIL – RAINBOW WAREHOUSE
NOTTINGHAM -17TH APRIL – THE RESCUE ROOMS
MANCHESTER - 18TH APRIL – ACADEMY 2
LEEDS - 19TH APRIL – BRUDENELL SOCIETY CLUB
NORTHAMPTON - 20TH APRIL - ROADMENDER
NORWICH - 21ST APRIL – THE WATERFRONT
GLASGOW - 23RD APRIL – ORAN MOR
NEWCASTLE - 24TH APRIL - ACADEMY
COVENTRY 25TH APRIL – KASBAH
