Never Apologise Never Explain - Therapy

Advantages: It's a unique sound. It rushes. You can confuse your mates with it.
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...these days Even Therapy? themselves admit that this is the best album they ever made but if they had carried on sounding like this then they would have probably never made any money so they had to sell out. While the album only has seven tracks on it, it is one of those recordings that is short but really doesn't need to be any longer as it is complete in itself. All the songs sound like they were recorded on a budget of about 50p but this kind of music just wouldn't work if it was polished and over produced by an expensive studio. This album is also available with Therapy?'s second mini-album 'Pleasure Death'( which is very nearly as good as Babyteeth ) on the 'Caucasion Psychosis' compilation. If you want to hear something a little different and you think you can trust my judgement then track down a copy of this album and you won't regret it.... Read review

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...In my mind, Therapy? have never received the accolades they deserve. Troublegum was an excellent album that caused quite a stir when released, and contained a couple of successful singles. Infernal Love was underwhelming in sales, with a love or hate it response from fans. Then the band, with personal changes in the rhythm section released this album. Songs such as Tightrope Walker and Lonely, Cryin' Only manage to mix melody with attitude in a thouroughly undated way, (Andy Cairns even fits in a harmonised guitar solo without sounding like a Brian May fan!) whilst the lyrics, although dark for the most part are thought-provoking and thoroughly un-cliched. Textures abound, samples filter thorough the walls of guitars to provoke interest and ear-bending effects. Altogether, an album well-worth getting hold of - all those into Skunk... Read review

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Advantages: A rousing tour de force
Disadvantages: Some of the lyrical content is a bit dodge

...listening. Religion and religious hypocrisy are again explored, whilst musically Therapy enter the world of Judas Priest. The genuinely scary backing vocals are provided by Lesley Rankine, whom I don’t know much about, other than the fact she can scream the word “CHRIST!” in a most eerie way. A brilliant punky cover version of Joy Division’s “Isolation” sits happily at track 10. Therapy skilfully rework the original; changing an icy, electronic track into a riffy, clean sounding rock track. Personally, I can never see the point in doing a cover unless you do something complete different with a song. The key thing here is that the original character and mood of the song isn’t really altered...it's just the clothes of the song that Therapy change. “Turn” was another single. A quirky, gothic tale, which would seem to be about stalking and paranoia... Read review

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