Wall of Mouths

When I first hear the live version of this song, I thought it was a great homage to Therapy?’s roots - which salute the music scene that evolve with the ghosts of Jesus Lizard and Fugazi. Well, I couldn’t be so wrong. OK; there’s a homage but honestly; It’s nothing to do with other bands that define the sound of T? Actually, Living in The Shadow… is only about Therapy? and what this band is about. You can feel Nurse, Troublegum, High Anxiety and Crooked Timber out there. This is pure Therapy? at the highest degree. Terrific stuff.

Me too.

Welcome to the resistance.

Informative interview. It’s kind a right step to release single at the beginning of 2012. Tight and focused…Also they mention the name of some songs, so there’s a possibility we will see track list and maybe some minor details posted at the end of this month. Keep watching this space!

I’ve seen Twitter one too. Seems like an old school. Very much like Post Nurse Pre Infernal Love EP, Single cover arts. I guess we have an update soon.

Standinline wrote:

Excellent news!
How many tracks will there be on the album, anyone knows?
Cheers looking forward to the tour as well next year then…

They’ve planned 10 tracks. With single b-sides i guess there will be fourteen. I’m not sure though.

I have been there. Somehow lost connection pre Suicide Pact term and when i checked the recordstore, i saw it. Give my last money and walk more than 5 KM under the rain (weak one) to home. I think internet likes religion; it kills the suprise factor, mystery within life. Too baD.

No track list, no cover art… mid June i guess.

Psychobot wrote:

I’d really like to hear all their outakes, no matter if they’re good or not so good. So far, there’s no T? song i don’t like. I also like the demo downloads on this side as well as the studio recordings.

On the booklet of So much for the ten year plan is a small picture of a tracklist. It must be from the SD sessions. Some of the titles are unreleased:

3. more than perfect
4. dark days coming
5. bye bye buddy
6. church of noise
7. nobody here but us
8. the boys asleep
9. something to kill for
10. tightrope walker
11. hang on
12. black eyed purple sky
13. don’t expect roses
14. straight life
15. armaggedon checklist
16. ????? ?????
17. husker duy song
18. cello song

I can’t read number 16.
It would be great if they’d release this songs.

This is a kind of “working title” list. T? usually use working titles for songs even albums at the early stages. All of these songs, except Hüsker Dü cover (Probably; Don’t Wanna Know If You Are Lonely) had released at some point with different name.

Yeo means: We did it again man, we did it again…

You know, it’s not just about music. It’s about the culture that define us when wall of mouths falling hard. Here, Therapy? is a epitome; bankrupt side of my passion thru the crash course art: ““I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.” Ballard once said; and McLuhan proposed that new tech built and then destroy the societies between little time frames. Sadly i believe; modern digital age shall violently crash roots of the innovation and we will face the recession of soul… I think it’s very good time to create really powerfull arts into this existential crisis. I’d like to concentrate this distant youth today, it will be important ( elegantly dead) tomorrow. Or you can forget all these shit that i’ve written (you should) and listen wiser man called Lou Reed: “There are very few great writers, very few great artists, and very few great rock ‘n’ roll bands.” For me T? is one of them and i like to talk about their toxic cloud romanticism while they still around.

It’s crossover. İf you do it right, it’s great. Lot of 90’s band did it wrong and it changed the direction of rock music. At some point maybe T? wants to record like Voivod or Killing Joke. And after Crooked Timber we can say it’s a right direction, makes sense at least. But to be honest i don’t think it will be happen as a whole result. It’s not a new influence; we got Loose (Photek Remix) with video clip which was aired randomly at Headbanger Balls at mid 90’s, we got Gimme Nyquil All Night Long, we got some much big dots between all records. God Kicks, Magic Mountains, Tramline… they all kind of strange at the first listen. But they were minority. Now, Screamager kind of songs become minority. I’m not really into this color but i can understand the evolution. Crooked Timbers’s only trademark point for me is ” My shade will comfort you” part, cos’ my taste, my understanding of Therapy? that connection goes thru my teenager years work like this. Now there’s a whole new generation growin’ old with global terror, recession, youtube, race issues and loneliness of social networks… and they really want to involve something, feel something. They don’t want more technology, they want more humanity. They accept these songs as a whole new beginning; first chapter of this book.
This record will be a challenge for me (again). At least this time i try to put it as a product of “Andy Caroll” era. I won’t judge it at the first sight nor 4o second clips or track list and artwork. I’ll try to touch it by the fragile gloves of burning time. We have to remember that; it’s a new world. New Ice Age. And this will be the record of that time.

Great shoes!

Probably end of may - like always been.

I think producers easily change the core ideas of the artists. Good one’s gives a suprising direction to the material and also update so many tehnical details, drum tones, vocal styles, relationships between tracks, etc… Also sometimes; looking thru your own material with someone else’s eyes makes huge differences. If Mr. Cairns produce someone else’s album, i don’t care the genres, i will give a shot that album - cos’ there should/might be some T? kind of light into the darkside at some point. So i’m not sure what i have to say now. Last night i listened the steam of new Social Distortion record which produce by their frontman Mike Ness. It’s a personal record, some kind of Stones tribute (Exile era) that he always want to do. And lot of bands feels that urge at some point of their history, doing something different, open new doors (St. Anger, Sandinista!). But Therapy? interestingly doing this at least three times (you can say nine or more). If this one sounds less adventurous, i won’t be suprised.

I’m mostly careless about this. There’s budget, schedule and lot of things going on. But if i’m the one who makes that decision with unlimited time and money, i choose Joe Barresi.

Rick Rubin. He just sits there and tell the boys what they have to do. And asks questions like “Remember winter of 94’, you have to back that time and bring me the energy.” or “Let’s make a black metal album?”

I’ve got Troublegum cassette at high school but my proper buy is Infernal Love cd. It sounds so good, so i bought cd version of Troublegum and Nurse. I can’t remember my first single but it was probably “Loose”.

They sent ozzy their part and he added his vocal. There’s some good covers that recorded separately but lot of em feels shallow. Breaking the Law is great live. Last song at the set; solid rock’n roll goodbye to fans.

I won’t be suprised if the new album sounds like Troublegum meets Crooked Timber. They revisited that era with today’s wisdom and they still seems like happy when they play that songs live. I’ve seen lot of bands who seems like bored as hell when they play their glory days hits - difference is - it’s a kind of curse, if you can’t produce anything new and exciting, it always ready to haunt you. T? is exceptional. They always create great music and they are pretty productive. I think it’s a great time for them to record something bigger than all we except. This album is one of my (musical) reason to choose life at 2011.

My imaginary Therapy? (cover) album:

Weak Heart Drops

1-) Search and Destroy (The Stooges)
2-) Sorry Somehow (Hüsker Dü)
3-) I Can See You (Black Flag)
4-) Urge (The Wildhearts)
5-) Behind the Wall of Sleep (Black Sabbath)
6-) Get Over You (The Undertones)
7-) Jawbreaker (Judas Priest)
8-) Emerald (Thin Lizzy)
9-) Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)
10-) Death is a Star (The Clash)

Japan Only Bonus Tracks:
Sleestak Lightning (Clutch)
Steal Away (Ozzy Osbourne)

İTunes Bonus Track:
City of the Dead (The Clash)

I think he means more songs in the trend of Low Winter Sun.

And new issue of Metal Hammer examine the creation of Troublegum album. I think this month is: “I love Therapy? month”. And it’s about time.

Buy all of them! You are lucky. You’ve never listen them. It’s a great adventure; discover that albums, listen them when lying at your bed, there’s a cynic and lonely rain outside, your neighbour’s dog barking. Your cell is ringing but you won’t answer it. So much thing going on in the world right now. Right now, only few people listen that albums (first time). Jamo; we won’t live forever but we are living right now.

New song is so 90’s, it’s great. Fugazi meets Black Sabbath kinda vibe all around. I hope new album sound like that.

At the end of the Infernal Love booklet, band pointed the ceasefire negotations as an peace opurtunity for Northern Ireland. To write a note like that, it doesn’t really matter the tool - means peace, hope and hope for peace is the language. Behind all these dark lyrics, i think he’s a pretty optimistic human being and probably his political views parallel with his presence.

It has got that underground feeling when Therapy? first start - like a complete circle now. All the label problems behind, like they return their home once again. Also today is mp3 day; labels don’t want to spent lot of money to cover arts, sleeves and most importantly bands. Just a minority can hire Corbijn kind of artist today. Also i don’t think it’s the worse one. One cure fits that space for me. Also (İf you delete the great band photo inside) Shameless feels strange and lonely.

It’s better than i expected. Thunderously organic but never sound like a some kind of lost bootleg. My only complain is bass but it’s myspace, so we willneverknow untill 8th November. Overall; it captured the experience (surprisingly audiences) much, much better than lot of (new) live record. And surely, with the shade of small details; it’s an anti-mp3 album.

“Heavy” is an interesting word. For my money; Pandemonium by Killing Joke is the heaviest album ever. It makes me lonely in this violent world. It breaks me randomly and then put me together like a one armed mother. I feel it same when i first listen Crooked Timber. Maybe as a sound -based- , Clutch - Self Titled is heavier than both, but feeling is the key word: How it changed your world or how it changed your perception about it’s borders and beyond, like conception of afterlife, living in a city under fire, try to draw a guilty thought bubbles of satan; like “I love the human nature”… And if we really need to talk about sound, i think “Knives” is one of the heaviest song ever written. Also there’s something really heavy going on at “Polar Bear” and “Straight Life”. And honestly, i can’t fantasise a person who wants to give a shot to “Suicide Pack” because it’s on the pop section and cover art feels like a office party. But I never found that misleading. I think it’s a great music and deserve to be (more) popular. İn a perfect world, Therapy? is a great pop band and U2 is a bunch of weirdos who spent their lives with determinist experimental bullshit (like their very own record call “pop”, now this is more agony than irony)

Pop at it’s best!

İt’s very hard to please a fan if you have 10 album or more. But it’s a confident, know-it-all kinda release. -Band release a live album when they are still active- means a lot for me. Also i’ve seen them recently and professionally they are at their peak. Songs remains the same but they feel like more connected and in this album i’m sure it feels like a family. Problem is legacy. I hope this record sells more than they imagine. So they can arange time to think about B-Sides record or some kind of box set, cover album at the near future. Because, you know, İt’s never enough for you and for me.