Waiting For Good Luck

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The Treatment – Waiting For Good Luck – Album Review
āWaiting For Good Luckā is an apt title for the fifth studio album from Cambridge rockers The Treatment. Since bursting onto the scene and being hailed as the next big thing, the band have suffered a somewhat Spinal Tapesque rotation of members.
Unlike that group, itās not the drummer thatās the problem! Dhani Mansworth being one of only two original members left from their 2008 foundation. Together with guitarist Tagore Grey, Mansworth has seen a revolving door of members including latest addition, bassist Andy Milburn.
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This has included three singers, with current vocalist Tom Rampton joining in 2017. Completed by Tao Grey on guitar, the band will be hoping for some stability and good luck moving forward. They will hope that āWaiting For Good Luckā is the start of that process.
From the beginning of opening number āRat Raceā onwards, you grow a sense that they may be in luck after all. Whilst this album delivers exactly the sound that you would expect from The Treatment, it delivers it very well.
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There are plenty of songs on this album that rate amongst the best that the band has produced. āTake It or Leave It’, āLightning in a Bottleā, āHold Fireā and āWrong Wayā lead the way but the rest of the album isnāt far behind.
You almost wait for a dip in quality that thankfully doesnāt come. From start to finish āWaiting For Good Luckā delivers on the promise that has always surrounded The Treatment. The hope now has to be for that good luck to arrive and for the band to be able to push ahead as a group.
After all fans of Tuckmanās Theory of Group Development know that to perform you need to work through the forming, storming and norming stages. (I bet you didnāt expect to see Tuckman reference in a music review!).
With this fifth album you finally feel that The Treatment are ready to deliver their best performance!
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