Therapy? announced new album ‘Cleave’
THERAPY? have announced a brand new album!
The album, titled Cleave, is the band’s fifteenth album and is scheduled for release in September. Speaking about the album, vocalist and guitarist Andy Cairns says, “I know that we can be a difficult sell, because we have no particular niche and no desire to conform, but THERAPY? have always been the kind of band that when people discover us, they immerse themselves deep and keep us close to their hearts. We’ve never been part of a trend, so we’ve never been cast aside when fashions changed. 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. We’re living in a time riven by conflict. You look at what’s happening in the United States at present, what’s going on with Brexit in the UK, with North and South Korea, with Palestine and Israel, and it’s impossible not to see turmoil and turbulence. Some of these conflicts have been going on as long as I can remember, but they seemed to really reach a head again around the time we were writing the album. Cleave is our response to the divisions we see all around us.”
The band will also be on an album release tour across the UK this November. You can see the dates for this tour, and other UK dates this summer, below:
SAT – Jun 23, 2018 Genk Onstage Festival – Genk, Belgium
FRI – Jun 29, 2018 Ramblin’ Man Festival ‘Friday Night Live’ show – Maidstone, UK
SAT – Jun 30, 2018 Ramblin’ Man Fair (w/Steve Earle, Gun, Steel Panther) – Maidstone, UK
FRI – Jul 06, 2018 Nell’s Jazz & Blues (acoustic headline set) – London, UK
SAT – Jul 07, 2018 Feis Festival (acoustic festival set w/Van Morrison, Chieftains etc) -Liverpool, UK
SUN – Jul 08, 2018 Amplified Festival – Gloucestershire, UK
8-Nov Cardiff The Globe
9-Nov Southampton Engine Rooms
10-Nov Norwich Waterfront
11-Nov Nottingham Rescue Rooms
12-Nov Glasgow Garage
13-Nov Sheffield o2 Academy 2
15-Nov Stoke Sugarmill
16-Nov Manchester Gorilla
17-Nov Leeds Brudenell
19-Nov Brighton Concorde 2
20-Nov Bristol SWX
21-Nov Exeter Phoenix
22-Nov London O2 Islington Academy
23-Nov Birmingham Asylum
