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. 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. 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. Online since 2010 it is one of the fastest-growing and most respected music-related publications on the net.

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. 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? A mammoth step forward, ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy’ is on one level a set of 10 absolute anthems (and three interludes from a mystery narrator). 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.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.

Anti-anxiety medication Sertraline gets its own ode, offered as part of the positive picture and something that can usefully hold your hand. 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.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.