Barry says: Featuring some pretty huge collaborators (including 'Not not Stephen Fry'), the Lottery Winners' newest LP is a heartfelt message to both those suffering from anxiety and those dealing with the results of it. 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. Seeking and finding “a whole universe for you to exist” becomes a shared motivational goal by the end of the song. When you’re weary, feeling small, when tears are in your eyes… try some Anxiety Replacement Therapy. 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.

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. A mammoth step forward, ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy’ is on one level a set of 10 absolute anthems (and three interludes from a mystery narrator).Manchester band The Lottery Winners new album ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy’, features collaborations with Boy George, Frank Turner, and Shaun Ryder. Anti-anxiety medication Sertraline gets its own ode, offered as part of the positive picture and something that can usefully hold your hand. Full of beautifully written songs and calming interludes, ART is rich and deep and excellently portrays an important message.

As well as recreating how it feels when your brain is determined to implode in self-sabotage, Worry also purges and blasts out any lurking brain crud with its force, as does track two, Burning House. 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. Let Me Down, despite, its title, is uplifting and stares at insecurity head-on, as if telling it that it’s time to wind its neck in. These are mass singalongs in waiting from a band who’ve specialised in bringing people together over their previous two albums.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. 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. which apart from reminding you what a sterling piece of creative work this album feels like, also looks bloody marvellous on merch. 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".