Music
08 Dec 05

Albion

The bloody bugger. Just when you thought it was safe to write Pete Doherty off as some kind of joke, back he comes with a record that actually does justify 90% of the hyperbolic crap that’s been written about him. Albion actually does sound something like the work of a musical genius, a surprisingly subtle lament for England (“violence in dole queues and a pale girl behind the checkout”) that easily matches his former band’s fleeting moments of greatness.

The bloody bugger. Just when you thought it was safe to write Pete Doherty off as some kind of joke, back he comes with a record that actually does justify 90% of the hyperbolic crap that’s been written about him.
Albion actually does sound something like the work of a musical genius, a surprisingly subtle lament for England (“violence in dole queues and a pale girl behind the checkout”) that easily matches his former band’s fleeting moments of greatness.