Wall of Mouths

I smell a merge coming on…
:)

The Big Issue gave it an alright one - 3 stars. I think it’s meant to be out of 5 but T? did best out of all the album reviews. Was pretty chuffed just to see them in there at all :D

OCFA got four axes of five which is pretty good. It was reviewed in an Finnish metal mag called Inferno.
The guy who reviewed it said that T? has got it own special sound which is easy to regonize and he hailed Andy´s vocals on the album.
Nice to see that T? got mentioned in Finnish press:)

Title: France loves Therapy? !!! (merged)

Just an OCFA review of a french mag : Versus.
It is undoubtedly the best mag of independant rock in France : Excellent reviewers, no compromises and a fair editorial speach.

I can not translate all the review (my english is so bad), so in advance excuse me but nevertheless maybe someone will be able to do this boring job.

But in abstract it is a true “declaration of love” to our 3 Irish men! Really a relevant point of view!

Versus
Therapy-One cure fits all
Score : 9/10

Il n’y a pas de doute, depuis l’arrivée du formidable batteur Neil Cooper (sur l’album “High Anxiety” en 2003), Therapy? vit véritablement une seconde jeunesse. Si “Never Apologise, Never Explain” sorti il y a un peu plus d’un an renouait avec les ambiances dynamiques et noise d’un “Babyteeth”, “One Cure Fits All”, lui, donne dans la mélodie tout de go et en appelle donc à…”Troublegum”!
Voilà 13 perles mélodiques, 13”tubes” comme on dit à la télé. Les trois de Belfast ont dû se replonger dans les discographies d’Hüsker Dü et Mega City Four, aucun doute là dessus. La mélodie donc, sur fond plombé de guitare hard noise et portée par une voix qui en a trop vu pour se soucier de quoi qu se soit. Puis la rythmique : entrainte, véloce, chargée impressionante. “Sprung”, “Unconsoled”, “Rain Hits Concrete”, ” Fear of God”, “Our White Noise” : l’énergie, l’exitation pure et simple, montées de fièvre er les riffs qui cassent les murs. Pas de chorus d’occase ici, Therapy? a tout compris, maitrise le songwritting à la perfection et livre encore un opus brillant de bout en bout, de long en large, de bas en haut, en rond aussi et tout autour. Des chansons simples mais pas simplistes, malignes en fait, de celles qui s’insinuent et qu’on fredonne inconsciemment dans la journée. Le tout servi, qui plus est, par une production jamais tape à l’oeil.
Seulement voilà, ils ne vont pas se relooker gothpunk pour renouer aves le succées (qui a crié “à mort Green Day?”), et ne sont ni assez beaux, ni assez “cool” pour faire la couv’ de NME. Il y a donc fort à parier que cet album ne se vendra pas davantage que son prédecesseur et que la presse en parlera le mois de sa sortie - histoire de - et puis basta.
Peu importe, Therapy? enregistrera encore des albums de cette trempe et donnera d’excellents concerts, loin des paillettes, en veritable bon groupe de rock qu’il est.

YEAAAA! Thanks Versus!

From a Spanish website
Translation at bottom of page

Therapy? – One cure fits all / Spitfire Records / 2006
por Jesús Rojas
Los irlandeses que alcanzaron la gloria a principios de los noventa con aquel impecable “Troublegum”, vuelven a la carga con nueva entrega bajo el brazo. La carrera de Therapy? ha estado llena de altibajos y, aunque nunca han logrado un disco tan redondo como el antes citado, siempre ha habido salvedades dentro de trabajos como “Shameless” o “Semi-Detached”. El combo liderado por Andy Cairns se caracteriza por albergar varios estilos dentro de su sonido característico, que van desde el rock al metal pasando por el pop, el punk y el grunge. Lo suyo es la diversidad, y prueba de ello son cortes como “Lose it all”, “Our white noise” o “Walk through darkness”.
Pero, sobre todo, en “One cure fits all”, los de Belfast optan por un sonido agresivo plagado de riffs metálicos y baterías desquiciadas. No estamos ante el mejor disco de Therapy?, pero sí un trabajo que se puede disfrutar en directo junto a joyas del pasado como “Church of noise”, “Knives”, “Knowhere” o “Trigger inside”.

Translation:

The Irish group rose that prominence at the start of the nineties with the impecible ‘Troublegum’ return with their nineth disc. Therapy?’s career has been full of high and lows, they’ve never achieved a disc as rounded as the previous mentioned, and there’s always been exceptions among their works such as “Shameless” and “Semi-Detatched”. The group lead by Andy Cairns is characterised by incorporating many styles into their sound, that go from rock to metal, from pop to punk and grunge. Their sound is one of diversity and the proof is in songs such as “Lose It All”, “Our White Noise” or “ Walk Through Darkness”.
Above all, on “One Cure Fits All”, the Belfast group opt for an aggressive sound, filled with metallic riffs and unhinging drums. While this is not their best album, it is a disc that will be enjoyed live alongside jewels from the past like “Church of Noise”, “Knives”, “Nowhere” and “Trigger Inside”.

I wrote this little review here (in German):

http://www.musicnet.at/index.php?id=mnetalben&no_cache=1&tx_music_pi6[albumid]=193&backPid=183

Bad Karma wrote:

I was in the newsagents at lunch time and i was browsing through the music magazines and Classic Rock and Power Play gave OCFA 8/10 and the dickheads at Q gave it 2/5 but then what else do you expect from a shit magazine that puts Oasis on the cover.

The Q review was utter bollocks.

” Men in their 30’s ( Andy is 40 ) shouldnt be making music this noisy ”

Lemmy is fucking 60 and hes still going strong and Motorhead are the loudest band there is.

” Why try make a comeback now ? ”

They never went away ? High Anxiety and Never Apologise Never Explain sold really well according to Andy Cairns, and their popularity is increasing again steadily ( source : magazine at London Guitar Show, also features full page OCFA advert :cool: )

” Trying to recapture their glory days ”

Nope. Just carrying putting out great records that true music fans, and loyal Therapy? fans enjoy, rather than buying the new Athlete album because Q or NME told us to, even though Athlete are diabolical music.

Squall wrote:

The Q review was utter bollocks.

” Men in their 30’s shouldnt be making music this noisy “

Yet if the foo fighter’s spilt tomorrow Q would have a special edition praising the band as a great “hard” rock band

Squall wrote:

” Why try make a comeback now ? ”
” Trying to recapture their glory days “

Yet Q seem to want a Gun’s n Rose’s to reform *ucking cunts :mad:

If it’s not in the charts there not interested so I’m not interested in them because they know nothing about music wankers :mad:

I’ll e-mail the cunt who did that review if I can get my hands on his/her e-mail address

FUCKING BASTARDS :mad:

EDIT:boy I was angry back the the whole 3 minutes ago :)

mooneycult wrote:

Bad T? reviews aside, Q is a horrible magazine, worse even than the NME. The most sychophantic load of dribble I’ve ever read. Almost withouth exception praise is heaped on the big release of the month (Red Hot Chillis this time I think), speaking out against an album that is certain to be huge is almost unheard of.

I totally agree. Awful music journalism. Q is a joke.

They also said Therapy? are a poor mans Ministry?! What the fuck does that mean? I swear the reviewer didn’t listen to the album for more than a few seconds per track.

The new issue isn’t out yet. next week i think, so should be carrying a review.

Thanks for the reply Distorted,i’ll look out for it.

Q is a fucking joke every other issue has a boring top 100 list.:rolleyes:

Title: kick his ass…!

:p

cheers

Billy Blue wrote:

Good luck ever seeing the likes of Q do that.

It would be like NME admitting Pete Doherty is a useless, talent- free junkie twat who deserves to be locked up.

:o Instead they name him the second most inspirational rock star that has ever lived.

Shower of Shit.

And any comments are more than welcome ;)

Thanks for the kind words. :)