Anxiety Replacement Therapy

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Anti-anxiety medication Sertraline gets its own ode, offered as part of the positive picture and something that can usefully hold your hand. Scratch the surface, however, and there’s a world of empowerment and defiance, tackling subjects such as austerity, as well as of course, anxiety, mental health and its medications, and ADHD.

Anxiety Replacement Therapy is the fifth studio album by English indie pop band the Lottery Winners, released on 28 April 2023 through Modern Sky UK. As well as recreating how it feels when your brain is determined to implode in self-sabotage, Worry also purges and blasts out any lurking brain crud with its force, as does track two, Burning House. A mammoth step forward, ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy’ is on one level a set of 10 absolute anthems (and three interludes from a mystery narrator). Worry" was written by Rylance when he felt at his lowest; he stated that "Writing songs releases those dark emotions, so it's healthy for me.Full of beautifully written songs and calming interludes, ART is rich and deep and excellently portrays an important message. Anxiety Replacement Therapy was placed at number one on the midweek UK Albums Chart dated 1 May 2023, a position it kept over the week, making it the band's first top 10 and number one album. We hear a slightly different Lottery Winners sound from what we might anticipate – plenty of the bounce and verve that we associate with them, but some of the motorik drive you’d associate with The Slow Readers Club.

Let Me Down, despite, its title, is uplifting and stares at insecurity head-on, as if telling it that it’s time to wind its neck in. A mammoth step forward, Anxiety Replacement Therapy is on one level a set of 10 absolute anthems (and three interludes from a mystery narrator). It helps that these messages come wrapped with some of the best choruses you’re likely to hear all year.Everyone knows what their ‘feelgood’ music is, that they have when they’re in a party mood, but we all have our ‘feelbetter’ tracks that are guaranteed to turn life back into something that feels more like truly living.

Manchester band The Lottery Winners new album ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy’, features collaborations with Boy George, Frank Turner, and Shaun Ryder.When you’re weary, feeling small, when tears are in your eyes… try some Anxiety Replacement Therapy. Money, musing on all the jobs musicians tend to juggle before they can (if they’re lucky) go full time, has all the melon-twisting Madchester trappings you could imagine, short of Bez and maracas. Anxiety Replacement Therapy kicks off with a mystery narrator (sounding very much like Stephen Fry, but DFS did manage to get a passable Stuart Maconie soundalike a few years ago…), who gives us three meditative interludes. The album was written by the band's lead vocalist Thom Rylance about his struggles with his mental health, following a year in his life. Money, Let Me Down and Letter To Myself showcase the band’s collaborative desire, with Sean Ryder, Boy George and Frank Turner (who previously sang on Start Again) appearing respectively.