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Apart from the old Katie Melua album (Call Off The Search)*, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks listening to Waterloo to Anywhere by ex-Libertines frontman Carl Barát’s new band, Dirty Pretty Things.
I’m not going to say that the album is the best thing ever, but it’s highly competent indie-rock, and it’s been worth my attention over the last couple of weeks.

Beyond a certain point however, the quality isn’t that important, I’m just glad the album is as (nearly) as good as the Libertines were, because it means that Pete Doherty wasn’t really the only creative talent in that band. (It’s hard to deny Doherty’s new band, “Babyshambles”, aren’t great.) If you’re not sure who these people are or why I (and others) support Barát, you could do worse than read this wikipedia section. Picking up a copy of the Libertines’ first album, Up The Bracket is highly recommended as well.

* Wow what a stunning voice. A recent single, Nine Million Bicycles is similarly incredible, so it may be that I end up buying the new album…

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