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Therapy? have released a video for their new single Poundland Of Hope And Glory, taken from their upcoming album Hard Cold Fire.
“This track started out as a hard take on how people lose themselves in narratives to the point that the myth takes on greater importance than the fact,” vocalist/guitarist Andy Cairns explains. “Just like the old adage about the liar repeating the lie so much that they eventually believe it themselves, the culture around us is bursting with fairy stories we tell ourselves.
“Metaphor and hagiography surround us, but in a post-truth world, the Walter Mitty character is no longer a harmless fantasist but an incendiary zealot using misinformation and chaos to achieve their goals.” Cairns continues adding “It’s easy to smirk at middle class parents whose Harry Potter loving kids are sent to private school because of the Hogwarts style uniforms, and easy to eye roll at adults who actually play Quidditch, a fictional sport from a novel written for children, but it’s not so easy to stomach the less savoury reinvention of colonialism as a lost paradise to which we should return.”
Hard Cold Fire is due for release on 5th May 2023 via Marshall Records, available to pre-order and pre-save HERE, with limited edition bundles also available.
Therapy? have also announced a run of in-store shows, see them live at one of the following dates:
May 2023
Mon 8th – BRISTOL – Rough Trade
Tue 9th – NOTTINGHAM – Rough Trade
Wed 10th – LONDON – Banquet Records
Thu 11th – OXFORD – Truck
Tickets are on sale HERE.
