Northern Irish icons return with Callow
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Therapy? have unleashed the first tune from their forthcoming 15th album, Cleave, due on September 21 via Marshall Records. The song, Callow, deals with the ups and downs of anti-depressants. Hear it below, and pre-order the album HERE
“Callow is one of two songs on the album that I wrote start-to-finish," explains frontman Andy Cairns. "My son Jonah is really into a rapper called Lil Peep, which sounds to me like emo with trap drum beats, with lyrics about how fucked up and lost and lonely he feels, and I managed to get Jonah a ticket for his show in London last year. A few months later he said to me, ‘Lil Peep is dead’, and I could see that he was really affected by it: I realised that, for him, this was like the passing of John Lennon or Ian Curtis or Kurt Cobain.
"In some of his music, Lil Peep talked about the antidepressant Xanax, the over-use of which has become a real problem in the UK. While I was thinking about that, I remembered a Stephen Fry quote where, after he was prescribed antidepressants to combat his manic depression, he said that he felt like a zombie for months. He said something like, ‘If you take away my demons, you’ll also take my angels.’ His point was that, yes, there were dizzying heights and terrifying lows without antidepressants, but he’d rather have that than constant numbness. So this song is talking about how we negotiate the chaos of life right now, and to understand why someone might numb out so that they don’t notice our divides.”
The band are on tour in November. Catch them live at...
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
