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Forget all the stuff about the poor guy's problems with substance abuse or his high-profile dysfunctional relationship with the model Kate Moss. It's simply baffling to reconcile the British press's view of guitarist and singer-songwriter Peter Doherty as some sort of ragged genius with what his music actually sounds like. Even in his finest moments with the Libertines, Doherty came across as a talented ragamuffin with a good garage-rock record collection, perhaps an unassuming cross between Nikki Sudden, Paul Weller, and Dan Treacy. The first Babyshambles record was a dreary affair with a few good songs tacked on. But the secon
Forget all the stuff about the poor guy's problems with substance abuse or his high-profile dysfunctional relationship with the model Kate Moss. It's simply baffling to reconcile the British press's view of guitarist and singer-songwriter Peter Doherty as some sort of ragged genius with what his music actually sounds like. Even in his finest moments with the Libertines, Doherty came across as a talented ragamuffin with a good garage-rock record collection, perhaps an unassuming cross between Nikki Sudden, Paul Weller, and Dan Treacy. The first Babyshambles record was a dreary affair with a few good songs tacked on. But the second, Shotter's Nation, is surprisingly good and sonically upbeat (if not so much lyrically). It's not that Doherty's songs here sound as if they'd been scribbled onto a napkin in the back of a dingy basement pub. It's the fragile sensitivity in them (and even if that's just another junkie scam, it doesn't matter). Combined with a Brian Jones-esque '60s pop vibe and crystal-sounding production courtesy of one-time Smiths and Blur producer Stephen Street, Shotter's Nation is basically the record the Brian Jonestown Massacre always wished they'd made. It's a very pleasant, genre-hopping rock record. --Mike McGonigal
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Manufacturer: Astralwerks
Release date: 23 October 2007
EAN: 5099950958320
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