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Amazon.co.uk Review
With their seventh album, Northern Ireland's Therapy? returned from the mainstream, corporate rock slickness of their more recent work to the feral punk stylings of their early days. After the enormous critical and commercial acclaim that greeted 1994's Troublegum, the band were gradually sliding into artistic stasis, yet following the dissolution of their A&M label in 1998, they immediately set to work on the strident, belligerent and, occasionally, experimental material included herein. Andy Cairns' gruff profanity wrestles with the post-grunge holocaust of "He's Not That Kind Of Girl" while the claustrophobic intensity of "Jam Jar Jail" swaggers with a glorious menace. But it's not all tooth-grinding bombast: Martin McCarrick's cello accentuates the stark atmospherics of "God Kicks" and "Six Mile Water" is an engaging exercise in barely checked restraint. Ultimately, Suicide Pact finds a newly focused Therapy firing on all cylinders and returning to the blistering ferocity of Baby Teeth. --Ian Fortnam