Wall of Mouths

It seems too soon to me :P Wasn’t Crooked Timber only released last week ?

Considering they finished recording ‘Crooked Timber’ in September 2008, it would seem about time to start a new album! CT wasn’t released for 6 months (March 2009), then there were festival gigs, the gold edition re-release, the live album, the 20th anniversary gigs etc… they’ve been busy so time has flown by.

Actually, it’s gonna be really interesting where they go from here, considering the sold-out big venue tour that they’ve just finished. Will the Troublegum lovers who went to those gigs stick around?

I wasn’t blown away by Shameless or OCFA, but If i’d ditched the band at those points, i’d have missed High Anxiety *AND* Crooked Timber…Two of my absolute favourite albums!

Yep, Sean’s right.

Working title: “A Brief Crack Of Light”
Song titles: “Plague Bell”, “Why Terbulence?”, “Living In The Shadow Of A terrible Thing”

You can find a live version of the latter here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqRogJC9oLQ

I don’t want to get too excited yet cos I know there’ll still be quite a long wait til it comes out. Those song titles sound very interesting tho!

I thought Crooked Timber was their best album since Troublegum :)

I don’t think I realised they had either.

I think a lot of fans that liked that one poppy, perky cheery album (yes, tongue is in cheek) found that T? dropped off their radar after Infernal Love and went off in different directions with what they were listening to. It’s less of an issue now than in 94, but unless a band was being pushed by the likes of Melody Maker & the NME, I never really knew when something new was coming out - the delay between IL and S-D really didn’t help T?, and when S-D did come out, I don’t think A&M had much focus on things like coherent advertising and promotional compaigns. And there’s loads of bands who I like one album but never really bothered with much after that - really love Papa Roach’s Infest, didn’t like the next one much, not really bothered with them since & if I ever went to see them, I would be hoping that they played lots of Infest…

That sounds like a good album title actually..

Therapy? 11

” Living In The Shadow Of A Terrible Thing ”

11 ? 2011 ? :eek:

On the new song, it sounds véry, véry solid and rocking. I’ve been speculating on what the new album’s gonna be like but you know with Therapy? you can speculate all you want, the comfort is I’m likely to be happy with anything they do. Perhaps more than 10 songs would be nice, but they of course shouldn’t do ’

In short, what I was halfway expecting was a slightly brighter (in sound, not in lyrics ;) ), less ‘crunchy’ development of the style on Crooked Timber rather than something completely radical and new, but of course after one song it’s too early for conclusions ;) It’s made me want to listen to Crooked Timber again! (it doesn’t have anything to do with liking them less or anything, but I listen to less Therapy? now than before)

Andy was so hella funny I already vote for keeping the things he said on the recording xD

‘Another cheery anthem from the boys in black.’
‘I played that like an absolute twat, so if you youtube that footage, don’t judge me’ xD

Found this via Facebook. Listening to it now and worth hearing.

http://www.purerawk.com/2010/12/07/therapy-talk-interview-with-michael-mckeegan/

20,000,000? Damn, that’s massive! Where’d they put it, the moon? ;-)

Citizen Erased wrote:

Yeah, I’m sure there’s an interview somewhere where Andy says that he wishes they’d done an EP or something to bridge the gap between Infernal Love and Semi Detached and that’s when the fame thing really lost momentum.

On the other hand, does mean they play the 2,500 Forum, rather than 20,000,000 Wembley or whatever it is, which makes for a more intimate gig

Semi-Detached is like Therapy?’s ‘Believe In Nothing’ in that aspect, I think, I always thought they were under strict guidelines from the management while doing that album (which is why they made Suicide Pact - You First later and what inspired the Ten Year Plan). Still a pretty good album if you look at it now, but yeah after the masterpiece Infernal Love was I understand if they were compared back then people might have been disappointed…

i wonder if they would consider doing a singles club type thang that ginger (wildhearts) tried to do (until half way through when the record company went bust)? where they release a single/ep every month for a year, fans pay upfront for all twelve singles, then get some sorta live album or summat at the end?
just an idea…

So has there been any word on a producer? I thought Andy gill did a fine job:)

Squall wrote:

I thought Crooked Timber was their best album since Troublegum :)

I thought Crooked Timber was their best album.