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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Erm..., 28 April 2006
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.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Isn't this where we started?, 30 Jun 2007
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
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
As strong as ever , 20 May 2006
As a long-time devotee of Therapy?, listening to this, their 11th studio album affirmed everything I have loved about the band from the outset: lyrics of intelligence, heart and defiance, with razor edged riffs from Andy Cairns, the molten bass lines of Michael McKeegan, and Neil Cooper who continues to maintain the benchmark set by Fyfe, the band's first drummer.
Weighing in at 13 tracks highlights including the opener Sprung, Deluded Son, Dopamine, Seratonin, Adrenaline, Our White Noise, Fear of God, and the outstanding Walk Through Darkness - which reinforces Therapy?'s status as a cut above much of what passes for contemporary alternative metal these days.
Still my favourite metal band - listen to this and they'll be one of yours too.
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