Source: Blabbermouth.net
Northern Irish rockers THERAPY? will release their new album, “Disquiet”, on March 23 via new label Amazing Record Co. According to a press release, “Disquiet” “comprises 11 tracks of charged, in-your-face, bruisingly melodic punk/metal. A sequel of sorts to the band’s million-selling 1994 album ‘Troublegum’, it is by turns confrontational, challenging, vengeful and venomous, a visceral and utterly compelling document of a confident band operating at the peak of their powers. Produced by Tom Dalgety (ROYAL BLOOD, BAND OF SKULLS,TURBOWOLF) at Blast studios in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, it’s both the most accessible recordTHERAPY? have made in two decades, and a reaffirmation of their healthy respect for noise, chaos and unsettling psychodrama.”
“We wanted to write something a bit more anthemic again,” explains THERAPY? vocalist/guitarist Andy Cairns. “In May last year, we did a 20th-anniversary tour for the‘Troublegum’ album, and it was completely sold out, and it was great hearing those songs sung back at us, and seeing what they meant to people.
“Clearly it would be idiocy for us to attempt to recreate ‘Troublegum’, because that was a different era, and a different band lineup, but the starting point for this album for me was thinking, ‘What would the protagonist of ‘Troublegum’ be doing twenty years on?’
“Our last two albums [2009’s ‘Crooked Timber’ and 2012’s ‘A Brief Crack Of Light’] were more experimental and diverse, and we already knew that he wanted to go back to more ‘song’-based stuff this time around, so that conceptual idea dovetailed perfectly with what we planned in terms of the musical direction.”
