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BABYSHAMBLES - Down In Albion
| BABYSHAMBLES "Down In Albion | | You know the type -- their remains lie in the tower of song: Dee Dee, Kurt, Sid, Johnny Thunders. The fagged out druggie, the misunderstood fop lost in the spotlight clinging helplessly to a bottle, syringe or Telecaster for dear life while the crowd, like some incantatory Greek chorus, eggs him on to go one more round. The latest contender for this pathetic lineage is, however, still standing -- enter former Libertine, now a Babyshamble, Pete Doherty. Give him a hug....full text |
| | Times Online | | Pete Doherty has finally made an album rather than tabloid headlines, and surprisingly it is rather good in parts. While the opening track, La Belle and La Bête, is truly awful, the jaunty The 32nd of December and the shambling epic that is Up the Morning demonstrate that when he is not modelling himself on Shane McGowan, Doherty really does have some talent to waste. Much better than the disastrous second album by his former band, the Libertines....full text |
| | Dotmusic | | Now it's okay to admit that the last Libertines album was a bit of a mess, half-cooked by a sleepwalking co-pilot whose contributions were incoherent at best, we can acknowledge that some degree of discipline and rigour wouldn't go amiss this time. With youngsters snapping at his heels, Pete Doherty may be heading back to the building site if he doesn't get it right soon....full text |
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