#109
12th March 2015
Therapy? - Still Hurts
They Say: “This was kind of a riposte to Troublegum’s opening track ‘Knives’: I was thinking the person that wrote Knives all those years ago, how is he feeling now? And I was thinking that he’d still be pissed off. There’s this myth that somehow when you get older the way that you thought when you were younger disappears, and you replace it with some kind of wisdom. But that can be ludicrous: I think that many people just bury all their anger and all their despair behind a middle-aged sheen of respectability and I think often those feelings are still there, but it’s seen as bad etiquette to still be bellicose and complaining at a certain age of your life. So it’s kind of saying that the things that hurt me then, still hurt me now, and I know from other people that I’ve talked to that I’m not alone in this. The song is very short, direct, riffy and in-your-face, and a good way to start the album. It was one of the first things we wrote for the album. And because of the production from Tom it’s still very contemporary sounding, it doesn’t sound like we’ve made a ‘90s retro record.”
We Say: “To say a ‘return to form’ overlooks the fact Therapy? have been consistently brilliant over the last few records - keeping things adventurous and fresh. It is, however, a return to what many know them for best - big chunky riffs, cocky vocals and a ballsy dose of straight up noisy rock. We welcome the lack of frills."
