Anxiety Replacement Therapy

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Across the record, delicate piano notes are intertwined with intricate guitar riffs to build a comforting soundscape for frontman Matt Berninger’s lyrical tales of personal struggles and fractured relationships. When you’re weary, feeling small, when tears are in your eyes… try some Anxiety Replacement Therapy. The new album by The Lottery Winners isn’t available on prescription; you do have to buy it, but as self-care goes, you’ll be doing yourself a huge service if you make the investment. Thank you so much to everyone who’s made this happen, we appreciate you so much. We’re speechless! Thank you, everyone.”

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Talking to NME about their new album at the start of 2023, The Lottery Winners frontman Thom Rylance said: “I’ve always told my story in our songs. If you’re telling your own story, it’s never going to be boring. When I started assembling these songs, I realised that every one I wrote was getting a bit lighter, feeling progressively less down. Anti-anxiety medication Sertraline gets its own ode, offered as part of the positive picture and something that can usefully hold your hand. 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. Letter To Myself, in which Rylance writes to himself aged twelve, feels relevant to us all, but feels particularly generous and celebratory when you read about his difficulties navigating through school. 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). These are mass singalongs in waiting from a band who’ve specialised in bringing people together over their previous two albums. We end with ‘[STOP]’, the end of the therapy session, as the narrator utters, “We hope you have found some peace and clarity”. The writing of this album was Thom Rylance’s way of dealing with his anxiety, a replacement therapy, if you will. Along with Lloyd, Lally and Singleton, The Lottery Winners have created an album that does justice to his writing and arduous journey. Full of 80s influence with a modern twist, rarely has mental health been dissected, reconstituted and utilised for musical entertainment so well. Not an easy task. It treats the subject matter with the importance, sensitivity, and respect it deserves but doesn’t browbeat you. This is not about lecturing folk but inviting them to understand one person’s tale while listening to banging choons.The Lottery Winners eye up collaborations with Johnny Marr, Noel Gallagher and more". Music-News.com. 1 May 2023 . Retrieved 3 May 2023. a b Duran, Anagricel (29 March 2023). "The Lottery Winners share new single 'Let Me Down' with Boy George". NME . Retrieved 3 May 2023. It was because I had ADHD, growing up when the awareness of it wasn’t as good as it hopefully is now. For me, school was: ‘He’s a bad egg, get him out’. I grew up feeling I didn’t fit in, because adults told me I didn’t. ‘Letter To Myself’ is me saying: ‘Actually, you’re going to do good things. Don’t worry, keep being you, because it’s OK to be you. You’ll become proud of yourself’. I’m in the process of getting that diagnosis. It’s so glaringly obvious I’ve got it that I’ve never thought I needed it confirmed.” Speaking exclusively to Official Charts, The Lottery Winners say: “Anxiety Replacement Therapy is the UK’s Number 1 album on the Official Chart. It’s done, we’ve got the trophy!

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I knew that, on another day, people could have been really hurt. It was important to do something about it. I’ve always felt emotions so strongly. I feel intensely happy or intensely sad, there doesn’t seem to be a middle. Sertraline helps me reach that middle. I’m not telling anyone to get medicated, but I can say it’s really helped me.” ‘Money’ features Shaun Ryder. He seems a kindred spirit to you. Is that a fair comparison? Punk survivors The Damned are riding the crest of a wave nearly half a century on, gigging at the top of their game and unleashing one of their best albums. Bassist Kate Lloyd adds: “We know how much our band means to people. If this album gives support to anyone and helps keep them going, that’d mean more than anything.” The Lottery Winners’ new album Anxiety Replacement Therapy will feature guest appearances from Shaun Ryder, Frank Turner and Boy George.

Anxiety Replacement Therapy

Before I started taking Sertraline, I was a very tetchy, stressed-out person. I wasn’t good to work with, and I recognised that. I got so worked up that I crashed a van. It was so stupid, and I knew the reason I did it was because my mental health was so poor. Due for release in April, the album was made with their regular producer Tristan Ivemy. The follow-up to 2021’s ‘Something To Leave The House For,’ which reached Number 11 in the charts, the new LP chronicles a year in the life of Rylance, including struggles with his mental health. ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy’ has been previewed with its opening song ‘Worry’, written when Rylance was at his lowest ebb.