Lord Darksoul believes that this is easily the most underrated album of all time. Not only did the mainstream-rock audience completely ignore this, but "In Therapy" also flew under the radar of those into Katatonia, Anathema etc. despite being released by Peaceville. It seems like everyone missed this album.
I don't get it. This album is chock full of some of the BEST SONGS EVER, every tune is of a ridiculously high caliber. I'd say I've listened to this more in the last 4 years than ANY other album, with the possible exception of Last Fair Deal Gone Down. Infact, I like to consider this LFDGD's slightly less refined, completely self-destructive little brother. Lyrically as bleak of an album as "Alternative 4," singer Alan Gaunt is fighting everyone and everything in the universe... but perhaps no one more than himself. Having been in contact with him somewhat frequently over the last 2 years or so, I know him to be a completely paranoid and unstable man, with perhaps THE best natural singing voice I've ever heard (he sounds like he'd probably be the greatest karaoke singer ever.. totally unprocessed voice loaded with raw emotion). He's really the only person I can think of that could have pulled of this great display of dissafection towards life.
Musically, this is just as morose as Katatonia or Anathema, but most of the songs are very upbeat which I think just adds to the emotional urgency and catchiness of the compositions.
Enough of my talking, go check them out NOW:
http://www.myspace.com/thine1
"Bleaker Audio" is perhaps the greatest suicide song ever.
"In Therapy" is perhaps most indicitive of the rest of the album, and has a chorus that will is impossible to unstick from your brain.
"Never Learn" contains a riff that on gloomy days, I'll often repeat ad nauseam until all tears have been wept from my soul and my will to live has vanished into the grey rain.
I don't get it. This album is chock full of some of the BEST SONGS EVER, every tune is of a ridiculously high caliber. I'd say I've listened to this more in the last 4 years than ANY other album, with the possible exception of Last Fair Deal Gone Down. Infact, I like to consider this LFDGD's slightly less refined, completely self-destructive little brother. Lyrically as bleak of an album as "Alternative 4," singer Alan Gaunt is fighting everyone and everything in the universe... but perhaps no one more than himself. Having been in contact with him somewhat frequently over the last 2 years or so, I know him to be a completely paranoid and unstable man, with perhaps THE best natural singing voice I've ever heard (he sounds like he'd probably be the greatest karaoke singer ever.. totally unprocessed voice loaded with raw emotion). He's really the only person I can think of that could have pulled of this great display of dissafection towards life.
Musically, this is just as morose as Katatonia or Anathema, but most of the songs are very upbeat which I think just adds to the emotional urgency and catchiness of the compositions.
Enough of my talking, go check them out NOW:
http://www.myspace.com/thine1
"Bleaker Audio" is perhaps the greatest suicide song ever.
"In Therapy" is perhaps most indicitive of the rest of the album, and has a chorus that will is impossible to unstick from your brain.
"Never Learn" contains a riff that on gloomy days, I'll often repeat ad nauseam until all tears have been wept from my soul and my will to live has vanished into the grey rain.
