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BABYSHAMBLES - Blinding Ep
| Popmatters | | Whatever you think of him, there is no denying that Pete Doherty has been an inescapable presence over the last few years—gatecrashing tabloid headlines, gossip columns and London courtrooms as frequently as he appears in the pages of the NME. And though there are a growing number of people who’ve reached the end of their tether with the wayward ex-Libertine—with every public appearance and every new bit of documentary footage that emerges, he somehow seems to retain a bit of that unmistakable charisma that drew people to him in the first place....full text |
| | StylusMagazine | | Let’s face it: Pete Doherty’s become Kevin Federline. He’s more pop meta-narrative than music, more tabloid cover than album shot. Patty can put the pipe down, sure, but what are you gonna pick up instead? There goes the glare, and by now that’s all there is. So while there’s a tendency to internalize his plight—mainly because some of us actually used to like the Libertines—and feel we might well yet be cheated of something, we never had a right to assume him as granted....full text |
| | PitchFork | | Pete Doherty refuses to be written off. By now, rock's most famous crack addict should be either just another cautionary tale ("kids, this is your Clash cover band on drugs") or the wasted embodiment of emptily nostalgic hype-mongering ("English journos, raise yr standards!"). And yet if the ex-Libertine's first Babyshambles outing, 2005's Down in Albion, wasn't quite an embarrassment of scruffy rock riches like the Libs' Up the Bracket, it was, more importantly, not an embarrassment....full text |
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