An Early Listen to ... ; Babyshambles Shotter's Nation (Regal)

Evening Standard - London › August 24, 2007

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Babyshambles Shotter's Nation (Regal)

LET'S put aside the legal and romantic troubles of Britain's most wayward rocker for an all-too-brief moment, and consider the fact that Pete Doherty's band have a November gig booked at Wembley Arena, the traditional home of Status Quo and professionalism, and are about to release a remarkably good second album. After the tattered mumbling of the first Babyshambles release, Down in Albion, this one, due on 1 October, sounds like a completely different band. Only Doherty's drunk-ina-doorway vocals undercut the polish applied by Smiths and Blur producer Stephen Street, who sculpts a sound resembling the thrilling garage rock bands of the Sixties. Kate Moss watchers can pore over the album highlight, You Talk, reportedly co- written by her in bed, and lines such as: "You said that you love me, why don't you f **k off " on the remarkably pretty Unbilotitled.

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