Found this review in a local paper last week and was wondering who else had found bad reviews of t?
From MetroLife section in Metro (Tues May 13th 2003).
“After all this time, the most interesting thing about Irish riff-mongers Therapy? Is still that the question mark following their name is the result of some clumsy Letraset application on an early demo tape. Since then, the band have made clumsiness something of a (misspelt) calling card, buffeting from one gauche metal record to another with all the finesse of a fat man in a dodgem. Neither clever enough to be taken seriously, nor daft enough to be loved, Therapy? Have tried on many hats and looked rubbish in all of them.
Their main problem is that theyve always strived to be something everything theyre not. First, they cast themselves as disaffected industrial metallurgists; wholly unconvincing on account of singing goatee Andy Cairns being about as disturbing as a Heartbeat Christmas special. Plus the lyrics were, and remain, crap.
Then, with the mainstream-tickling Troublegum album, they broke out the tunes and growled a hearty How about ye? to daytime radio, which was actually worse than before in that it added a sense of opportunistic desperation to the mix. Then came the cellos, in an attempt to be seen as sonorous artistes, although things only began going seriously awry when Cairns started appearing naked in videos, supplying irrefutable proof that Therapy? were the unacceptable arse of British rock.
Although their Troublegum evidently burst long ago, they remain afloat thanks to an alarmingly faithful fan base and will probably be preaching to the converted for years to come. But question: Therapy? Answer: No Thanks.”
Posted on Wed, 21 May 2003 at 10:28
