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What would be your first words after 11 years of silence? How esordireste front of a crowd, impatient and disillusioned, he still kept an open channel in waiting for your move?
The British band chose "This one's for your heart and for your mind."
A drive for the heart and mind.
After years of false starts, rumors and some denials confusing blitz live, Carl Barat and Pete Doherty have once and for all given voice to their love-hate relationship with an album that is a hymn to a wasted youth (their): "Anthem for doomed youth" to be precise.
The history of the Libertines has remained entangled in the pages of glossy magazines thanks largely to the "brilliant" Doherty found that, prey to the fumes of alcohol, heroin and all kinds of drugs, has always taken the side to incriminating shots of the paparazzi and the poisoned pens printing. Meanwhile, the rest of the band took patience, or so we like to think, and at the same time the large group of fans regretted all that wasted time away from recording studios.
And the music? Obviously, before you can talk about the Libertines had to make peace with each other and most of all with his own demons. Go into rehab and stay there for a long time to clean up the body and mind, in the first place, then chords and melodies. "Anthem for doomed youth" in fact was born in Thailand, including the rehabilitation center for drug addicts and alcoholics where Pete has spent several months, and the luxurious Karma Studios a short walk from the bay of Bang Saray.
With determination and enthusiasm barbaric, with the motto "All I want is to scream out Lord!", The album opens with "Barbarians", once hidden by Doherty and his Babyshambles under dusty "Natives at the gates of Rome ". Covered with a bit gritty, maracas and tambourines, the song finally breathe thanks to choirs, raised with new force, are the strong point also for the single "Gunga Din".
"Fame and fortune" and the delicate title track are a flashback on the origins of the band, the time between the pubs of London, on stages and the floors of the capital, from the first record to the continuous and damaging disputes with the whole world and interiors the band. A melancholy awareness.
"You're my Waterloo" is the maverick that Doherty was brought back over the years and the formations, which already has several live performances and that has finally found its place in the world. Then there's "Belly of the Beast", with a typical piece Libertines: a seemingly sleepy little march that shakes off the torpor with a finish somewhere between '50s rock and gospel with a lot of hand clap accompaniment.
Sound of the sea, acoustic guitar and vocals introduce "Iceman" which, despite its simple structure has something disturbing and distorted. As a nursery rhyme dream. "Heart of the Matter" is a shock that moves the needle totally on rock until you reach the highest peak with the punk of "Fury of Chonburi", then resumed with no frills in "Glasgow as blues scales." "The milkman's horse" is a bit 'squashed between those two tracks, for this is a bit' less convincing. Finally "Dead for love" close "anthem" of the Libs bringing with it an air of mystery. The piece is dedicated to the musician Alan Wass, friend and collaborator of Doherty died at age 33. This makes the ending even more poignant.
They called the return of the decade, the "come back album" '10s. Under the weight of the pressing expectations, the Libertines loved dealing pretty well healed scars, and between still visible; They have not denied or betrayed and managed to re-float them that unmistakable sound that drowned the weight of too much chaos has resurfaced in all its lightness, sobriety and seriousness. And, although "Anthem for doomed youth" is not brilliant, like his predecessors, is composed of a track list that will satisfy all tastes of old fans attirandone easily new ones. No more young people genialoidi confused, in fact.
Carl Barat, Pete Doherty, Gary Powell and John Hassall form a full band in which, for the first time, all participate actively and equanimemente. The group is well calibrated without exceeding ever.
It 'likely that the rehab has really worked.
TRACKLIST: Barbarians
Gunga Din
Fame and Fortune
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Heart of the Matter
Belly of the Beast
Iceman
You're My Waterloo
Fury of Chonburi
The Milkman's Horse
Glasgow Coma Scale Blues
Dead for Love
Love on the Dole *
Bucket Shop *
Lust of the Libertines *
7 Deadly Sins *
