The Lottery Winners - Anxiety Replacement Therapy

Released 28th April 2023

Manchester band The Lottery Winners have announced their forthcoming new album Anxiety Replacement Therapy, out on 28th April on Modern Sky Recordings, which will feature collaborations with Boy George, Frank Turner, and Shaun Ryder.

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 whove specialised in bringing people together over their previous two albums.

Scratch the surface, however, and theres a world of empowerment and defiance, tackling subjects such as austerity, as well as of course, anxiety, mental health and its medications, and ADHD. It helps that these messages come wrapped with some of the best choruses youre likely to hear all year.

Each of the albums in my collection are a self-help tape for me, explains singer Thom Rylance. If I liste