Therapy
Living In The Shadow Of The Terrible Thing
Thursday 19th of January 2012
Seminal Irish rockers THERAPY? are set to release thunderous new album 'A Brief Crack Of Light' on February 6th 2012. It will be preceded by the 'Living In The Shadow Of The Terrible Thing' single on January 23rd.
With the band looking lean and hungry in the video and with echoes of Crooked Timber in the big sound, this single gives me high hopes of the forthcoming album. It is quite an art to put down such a massive groove while still spanking the harmonies in a giant chorus, but Therapy? excel themselves in this respect.
Roll on February 6th, this album is going to be grand!
Andy Cairns describes the first single as: Chunky, groovy, tough and melodic, 'Living in the shadow of a terrible thing' started life as a mis-remembered line from a Flann O'Brien novel and ends up ruminating on a life of absurdity lived in a constant state of confusion. The narrator can only quote from haunted fractions of collective memory while the cacophonous rhythm threatens to pull everything from underneath him at any moment.
Author: Steve
Label: Global Music
Found in: Record Reviews