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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Am i listening to a different album to all the other reviewers? This is what i hate about fellow therapy? fans, every album gets 5 stars, regardless.
Now let's be honest here, this album does not get anywhere close to the likes of Troublegum and Suicide Pact in terms of quality (but then could anything?). I wouldn't even give it the same standard as the next best 3 albums they did (infernal love, semi detatched and NANE). For me, this album has several flaws. Don't get me wrong, the first 2 songs on the album are 2 of the best songs T? have ever done. Sprung reminds me of teethgrinder and Deluded Son is as close to Therapy?'s best ever song (Safe) as they've got.
However, from there the album chokes on by-the-numbers predictability. Every chorus as the same line1,line1,line1,line2 format, every song has a basic structure and the guitar solos are dismal compared to what Andy is capable of.
People also seem to be raving about the "ballad" Dopamine, Seratonine, Adrenaline. Yes, it's nice to see T? doing slower songs, but The Boys Asleep, A Moment of Clarity, Six Mile Water and Diane were BALLADS. They were slow for a reason, each obviously trying to show through Andy's feelings about a particualar, personal subject. All DSA does it sing about hormones. Over and over and over and over. Christ.
Songs like Private Nobody and Rain Hits Concrete sound like they came off the DISMAL Shameless album.
All in all this feels like an album where the age of Andy is finally starting to show. Face it, he's a happy man now, and happy people have no stories.
Now let's be honest here, this album does not get anywhere close to the likes of Troublegum and Suicide Pact in terms of quality (but then could anything?). I wouldn't even give it the same standard as the next best 3 albums they did (infernal love, semi detatched and NANE). For me, this album has several flaws. Don't get me wrong, the first 2 songs on the album are 2 of the best songs T? have ever done. Sprung reminds me of teethgrinder and Deluded Son is as close to Therapy?'s best ever song (Safe) as they've got.
However, from there the album chokes on by-the-numbers predictability. Every chorus as the same line1,line1,line1,line2 format, every song has a basic structure and the guitar solos are dismal compared to what Andy is capable of.
People also seem to be raving about the "ballad" Dopamine, Seratonine, Adrenaline. Yes, it's nice to see T? doing slower songs, but The Boys Asleep, A Moment of Clarity, Six Mile Water and Diane were BALLADS. They were slow for a reason, each obviously trying to show through Andy's feelings about a particualar, personal subject. All DSA does it sing about hormones. Over and over and over and over. Christ.
Songs like Private Nobody and Rain Hits Concrete sound like they came off the DISMAL Shameless album.
All in all this feels like an album where the age of Andy is finally starting to show. Face it, he's a happy man now, and happy people have no stories.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Fifteen years ago, with "Babyteeth"? A trio of hardup, lowbudget Irish punk rockers, playing tiny rooms, armed to the teeth with unfamilair songs?
Therapy? Have come full circle. They've even borrowed the sleeve art from their first single (`teethgrinder') and remixed it for this, their tenth album. The familiar ingredients are here : a barrage of clanging drums, amelodic serrated guitars, and furiously inarticulate lyrics. But after years of musical evolution, from the claustrophobic early stuff to the widescreen vistas of their highpoint "Infernal Love", and the inevitable commercial decline, Therapy have returned to their roots. And not necessarily in a good way, they are as good - and as bad - as they were back then.
No doubt the shows will be incindary mospits of thirty somethings pushing and shoving and noises that you can still hear years later as a highpitched feedback lodged in your brain forever. But to be blunt, One Cure Fits All is mediocre. The band commit themselves with passion and precision, but fail to write one memorable tune throughout the whole length of the album
Therapy? Have come full circle. They've even borrowed the sleeve art from their first single (`teethgrinder') and remixed it for this, their tenth album. The familiar ingredients are here : a barrage of clanging drums, amelodic serrated guitars, and furiously inarticulate lyrics. But after years of musical evolution, from the claustrophobic early stuff to the widescreen vistas of their highpoint "Infernal Love", and the inevitable commercial decline, Therapy have returned to their roots. And not necessarily in a good way, they are as good - and as bad - as they were back then.
No doubt the shows will be incindary mospits of thirty somethings pushing and shoving and noises that you can still hear years later as a highpitched feedback lodged in your brain forever. But to be blunt, One Cure Fits All is mediocre. The band commit themselves with passion and precision, but fail to write one memorable tune throughout the whole length of the album
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This album really is amazing in my opinion, but then, I hate reviews and, generally speaking, reviewers. For me, the melodies and dynamics on this album are great and I loved the whole thing. The problem with some Therapy? fans is that they want to hear Troublegum and the like over and over again. One of Therapy?'s best qualities is that they change their sound album to album. Semi-detached happens to be my favourite T? album, therefore my review is immediately different to the others.
If you like Therapy? MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND about the album. Check it out.
If you like Therapy? MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND about the album. Check it out.
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