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a few songs that lag a bit, this is easily Babyshambles' best work yet.
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Street entirely avoids DIA’s flinty spectrality and staticky crackle and turns a bright light on the smart, compact and relentlessly exciting arrangements he’s here coaxed from the band.
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While Shotter’s Nations contains some of the brightest spots we have seen from Doherty in several years, there remains a few songs with wasted potential.
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Shotters Nation isn't his magum opus, it's still infinitely more consistent, listenable and likely to get played on the radio than its predecessor ever was.
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It's a record full of straight-up good songs from a band that should be (and would be, except for Doherty's fuckery) much more important than it is.
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Free of his former band's birthplace, Pete Doherty now exacts revenge on Shotter's Nation, whose opening briar 'Carry on up the Morning' rings instantly Libertine, as does the stumbling tempo and frontman's stutter-step lyricism on 'Side of the Road.'
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Pete Doherty remains the British tabloids' pinata of choice--but at least his music is looking up.
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Lyrically, Shotter's Nation brims with the insight and eloquence with which Doherty continually surprises you.
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It's also about love, loss, the British urban landscape, laughing at yourself, great guitars, exciting chord changes, tight rhythms, the Stones-Who-Kinks-(Small) Faces-Clash-Jam-Smiths-Happy Mondays-Stone Roses-Oasis-Blur history of Britrock, rich, simple production, songs with layers, a really good band and a singer who has relocated his voice.
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Doherty's second album with Babyshambles, is a fine effort and marked improvement on his first post-Libertines sally, but its explosiveness is held in check by an unfortunate air of self-awareness.
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Pete Doherty has just dropped one of the best indie rock records you’re likely to hear this year.
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Shotter's Nation, is surprisingly good and sonically upbeat (if not so much lyrically).
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Once again its vagaries are its distinction. Doherty makes a case for flat-on-your-ass alienation in an insane wartime culture.
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jyotirmayaDFeb 19, 2008
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AlejandroI.Oct 23, 2007Pete is a fucking genius.
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Oct 21, 2011