Therapy?

Number 13 does not have to be an unlucky number for Therapy? Sins their last album One Cure Fits All, where critics and fans were divided, the three musicians from Ireland come back with an worthy answer.

It took a little while before Crooked Timber came out, but when you hear the songs you will know why. The compositions are well thought-over, and got a lot of meaningful contents, the sound is great and overall it’s Therapy? like we knew them from Semi-Detached and Infernal Love.

It is obvious you can here this is an ultimate live band, and they have recorded the CD that you can hear that right away. From the first song The Head That Tried To Strangle Itself the sparks come from your CD player.

Number two Enjoy The Struggle has a fantastic rhythm which makes you jump around the whole time. Clowns Galore is heavier and more punk than the previous songs. And as from the title track Crooked Timber the songs become more sensitive, not more easy but different: more mature and well thought of.

Also the lyrics are more poetic, one can hear that singer Andy Cairns has the gift of turning punk/rock songs into beautiful compositions, where the heaviness is not in the songs, but in the lyrics themself. In short: this is a mature masterpiece which you have to taste yourself.

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