Nieuw Therapy? album op komst
Therapy? heeft concrete plannen om een nieuw album genaamd Cleave uit te brengen nog dit jaar.
Op 21 september 2018 brengt Therapy? het door Chris Sheldon geproduceerde nieuwe (15e) studioalbum Cleave uit, waarvan vorige maand de eerste single Callow verscheen. Cleave is de opvolger van Disquiet uit 2013 en het eerste muzikale wapenfeit voor Therapy's nieuwe label Marshall Records.
Benelux shows 2018
- Zaterdag 23 juni 2018: Genk On Stage (festival), Genk (B)
- Woensdag 10 oktober 2018: Reflektor, Luik (B)
- Donderdag 11 oktober 2018: de Kreun, Kortrijk (B)
- Vrijdag 12 oktober: Victorie, Alkmaar (NL)
- Zaterdag 13 oktober: Beerland (festival) Metropool, Hengelo (NL)
- Zondag 14 oktober: Pandora TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht (NL)
- Dinsdag 23 oktober 2018: Het Depot, Leuven(B)
Frontman Andy Cairns: "Cleave, to me, is Therapy? at our most focused. I love our more experimental side, but I also love that this record sounds like it was made by a band who're all reading from the same script and moving forward with the same determination and hunger. The way I've described Cleave to people who've been asking is that it's kinda like Nurse and Pleasure Death-era meets Troublegum, but with a totally modern 21st century production."
De productie van Cleave was in handen van oudgediende Chris Sheldon, die al eerder met de band werkte voor Troublegum (1994), Semi-Detached (1998) en High Anxiety (2003). Frontman Andy Cairns: "We know we can trust Chris. He has a great history with the band and no agenda. It's not like he's looking to make hit singles, but he also wants the band to be at their maximum ability, and he's very good at pointing out problems without offending you! In pre-production we shortened a lot of the songs and got directly to the point. You can get into your own little bubble when you're writing songs so it's great to have someone objective come in and challenge you to re-think things."
Cairns: "I think we've become a lot more comfortable about doing what we do best. Around the time of [2009's] Crooked Timber and [2010's] A Brief Crack Of Light I was still trying to prove a point to people that I listen to a lot of different music and trying to illustrate that in the music we were writing. But when we did Disquiet and saw the reaction we got from people who love guitar music and love our band it made me realise that there's certain things we do so well, certain things that are so characteristic of Therapy?, so we decided to focus on these things. We never want to be a template band, writing the same song forever, but we did definitely try to play to our strengths."