Dirty Pretty Things - Romance At Short Notice reviews
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| Nme |
 Fuck Albion. With dark clouds gathering over Britain, knives glinting and kids dying in the streets, the idea has never seemed so idiotic. While Pete Doherty slumbers contentedly in his own navel, it’s time for his spiritual brother to take centre stage, as we pray the rest of Carl Barât’s group has suppressed the green and unpleasant nonsense....full text |
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| Guardian |
| Their second album heralds stage two of Dirty Pretty Things' career: now virtually part of the furniture as far as English guitar groups go, they can't keep trading on the drama of being the band formed from the ashes of the Libertines. So it's time to put up or shut up, and with Romance at Short Notice, they put up. Leader Carl Barât is still in love with the idea of his band being a cool, nocturnal gang, and, accordingly, he sings as if it is 4am and he's just lit his 40th cigarette. In romanticising seediness (as on the splendidly louche Buzzards and Crows), and surrendering to the fact that Britain will never be the "Albion" of Barât's fantasies (on the trumpet-tooting Tired of England) they tread familiar, but very listenable, ground....full text |
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| Uncut |
Perenially cast in indie circles as a photogenic McCartney to Pete Doherty’s mercurial Lennon, Carl Barat has enough demons of his own, as proven here. “What you want is to stay away from people like me” he growls at on stage, and the image of hundreds of terrified Kaiser Chiefs fans running for the exits is inescapable.
Dig beneath the murky punk riffs (“Chinese Dogs”) and difficult time signatures (“Buzzards And Crows”) however, and you uncover a lyricist of rare promise, at his best when he’s on home turf. “The queen is on her throne/Bingo cards and chicken bones” he sighs on “Tired Of England”, providing a vinegary urban update of Ray Davies Village Green Preservation Society....full text |
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