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? 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. Manchester band The Lottery Winners new album ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy’, features collaborations with Boy George, Frank Turner, and Shaun Ryder.

Money, Let Me Down and Letter To Myself showcase the band’s collaborative desire, with Sean Ryder, Boy George and Frank Turner (who previously sang on Start Again) appearing respectively. Full of beautifully written songs and calming interludes, ART is rich and deep and excellently portrays an important message. A mammoth step forward, Anxiety Replacement Therapy is on one level a set of 10 absolute anthems (and three interludes from a mystery narrator). Apart from a shared geographical heritage, The Lottery Winners also embody the unapologetic joie de vivre that The Happy Mondays possessed (with less of the evident dysfunction).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.

When you’re weary, feeling small, when tears are in your eyes… try some Anxiety Replacement Therapy. Money, musing on all the jobs musicians tend to juggle before they can (if they’re lucky) go full time, has all the melon-twisting Madchester trappings you could imagine, short of Bez and maracas. 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. These are mass singalongs in waiting from a band who’ve specialised in bringing people together over their previous two albums.It includes collaborations with Shaun Ryder, Frank Turner and Boy George, [2] as well as three spoken word interludes performed by the actor Stephen Fry. 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.

Online since 2010 it is one of the fastest-growing and most respected music-related publications on the net. It helps that these messages come wrapped with some of the best choruses you’re likely to hear all year.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. Seeking and finding “a whole universe for you to exist” becomes a shared motivational goal by the end of the song.

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. We hear a slightly different Lottery Winners sound from what we might anticipate – plenty of the bounce and verve that we associate with them, but some of the motorik drive you’d associate with The Slow Readers Club. The Lottery Winners talk new album Anxiety Replacement Therapy with Shaun Ryder, Boy George and Frank Turner".Anti-anxiety medication Sertraline gets its own ode, offered as part of the positive picture and something that can usefully hold your hand. 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 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.