Anxiety Replacement Therapy

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Manchester band The Lottery Winners release new album Anxiety Replacement Therapy on Modern Sky Recordings, which features collaborations with Boy George, Frank Turner, and Shaun Ryder. 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. Seeking and finding “a whole universe for you to exist” becomes a shared motivational goal by the end of the song. A mammoth step forward, ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy’ is on one level a set of 10 absolute anthems (and three interludes from a mystery narrator). 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.

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. Anti-anxiety medication Sertraline gets its own ode, offered as part of the positive picture and something that can usefully hold your hand. When you’re weary, feeling small, when tears are in your eyes… try some Anxiety Replacement Therapy. Green concluded that while "the album is redolent of the lad rock of Hard-Fi and the blissed out pop of Blossoms", its tracks "are delivered with enough energy and passion to make them worth your time".

The album was released in 25 different formats, including 12 different CD versions, six vinyl LPs and five cassettes, which was not as many as the 32 formats that The Reytons' What's Rock and Roll? 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 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.

album came in, though The Lottery Winners' album sold more in one week, registering 22,209 sales, a total which was more than all their other album's sales combined.

It’s the point of the album in which the songs are gradually feeling lighter too, making the start-to-finish process of listening to the album feel slowly liberating. 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. 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. Online since 2010 it is one of the fastest-growing and most respected music-related publications on the net.