Up The Bracket is very refreshing. I love the sound of this album. Tracks like "Death On The Stairs" and "Horrorshow" really show that this is unlike any other British garage punk album. I recommend it. B

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This was the album that made the Libertines legends. And this record just improves with time. It absolutely never gets old. Some of the songs on this album are the best of all time.… Expand

Listened to it time and time and time again, and still love it. Ignore what any naysayers might say - if you like good, two-fingers (or one - I'm English) -up-to-the-world music that makes you want to scream every song at the top of your voice on top of a high building (or is that just me?) then buy this album. I class a good album by the number of tracks i want to skip, and there are none on this one. I could listen to each one twice or even thrice in a row. The English might not be able to land a mars probe as well as Americans, but we can still make damn fine music. … Expand

Fuc*ing A! Every single track on here could be a single. It's definatly my favourite LP since 'Doolittle'. If you don't own it by now scrub the shame off with wire-wool

"Nothing of new, nothing of expecional"

This is a fun, gritty rock n' roll record that should be played loud with the windows down and sunroof open. Some similarities to the Strokes but even less polished. Terrific album. Turn it up!

I love the CD. I'm glad that i read my one and only fortune magazine to hear about this band. The music reminds me of a strokes clash

This cd falls short of listenable. It is sickeningly awful.

This album hit me hard out of the gate and kept getting better as it went on. My love of the Clash, the Jam, the Damned and every other late seventies British punk act may be coloring (colouring?) my opinion, but still I think this album stands on it's own. Buy it.

Ive had the album for years and i still cant stop coming back to it. The best album ever! doherty is a genius!

Doherty and Barat's guitar skills are unmatched in this generation. This cd is a must own for any fan of punk music.

My favourite album, it just sucks you in from the moment you press play. The raw energy, the urgency, the incredible lyrics, the irresistable melodies, this album has it all. I've played it to death and I'm still not sick of it

Aside from a couple of weak links (which only pale in comparison to the greatness of the rest of the album), this is raw, invigorating and wholly British in all of it's thirty minutes plus. Messy and refined all at once.

I find the Libertines to be rather underrated. Definitely on par with the Strokes, this band really know the perfect sloppy way to smack a guitar. Mick Jones' presence is audible. And the Libertines is the only good band ever to have opened for Morrissey. Nice up-beat album for spring-time.

Absolute tuneless drivel - all image, not talent. "The British Strokes" is an insult, "Even Worse Than Menswear" would be more accurate.

sheer class

Absolutely enjoyable, every song is so catchy and powerful, a good british answer to The Strokes, that is in a general angle, because The Libertines has more punk attitude, and that is not a bad thing.

PURE CLASS

This is without doubt one of the best albums of the last 10 years.

this album is a mix of the finest garrage and every good thing in brtish rock in the last....well ever

amzing carefree lyrics stunnig guitar work and a tight ryhtem section a masterpiece.

The following fuckwit medias can FUCK off: uncut (who gives a fuck what you think you cunts) the onion a.v club or whatever (who the fuck are you?). oh and Q magazine. what cd were you listening to when you reviewed up the bracket?? i think this is a case of 'look at us we're controversial and give the best music the worst marks'. dick heads, perhaps you should review it again and remember to listen to it this time, rather than talk about U2 and the foo fighters.… Expand

4 years after it was released and i still listen to this masterpiece everyday. it is quite simply the greatest album ever made. Every song is a classic. They are an amazng band who have totally changed my life and inspired me to pick up a guitar. up the albion!

After 3 heartfelt listens to the whole albumn it is still boring, not creative, and makes me wonder where all the hype came from. Spend money on talented artists instead.

The Strokes? Are you kidding? This band blows Jules n Co. out of the water. Thank god for Pete and Carl.

One of the Best debut albums from any band ever. This is modern day Clash and a must buy for everyone.

As good as every single night for, I don't know how long, I've been telling myself to get those earphones off of my head and go to sleep or something instead of listening to "Up The Bracket". But this album keeps convincing me it's one of the best ones ever released. The tunes! The energy! The way it swings you out of it all! Pure love.

One of the best albums ever recorded. There is not even one average track on the whole cd - everything is great!

The Good Old Days is beautiful

Fantastic album words can't describe how good it really is.Pete Docherty is quite simply a legend

I listen to this over and over. Definitely one of the best albums of the 2000's. Being from the States I am definitely disappointed that I didn't find them until after they imploded :(. Thank heaven for Youtube and for their 2010 reunion. The chemistry between Pete and Carl is hard to find and when you combine it with Mick Jones...this beautiful piece of art is what you are left with. Long live the LIBS!… Expand

I think it is a shame that the slavish devotion of Libertines fans stopped me from enjoying this album at the time of its release as it really is fun and a breath of fresh air. Though a fine album the musicianship is average and it is only the charisma of the two frontmen and their lyrical skill that lifts this album. The Libertines like the Arctic Monkeys are blighted by obsessive fans whose inability to view the band objectively harms the public perception of them, slavish devotion will only lead to the artist growing complacent as shown by the inferior second album. Most of the L:ibertines die hards I know are like the character in Pulps "common people": Upper Middle Class drama students slumming it whilst they are at university but with the emergency get out of Papa if things get to grim.… Expand

I usually like cut my wrist bands but this is not one and I loove it!

For me this insane cd is the best album of 2000's. since 2005 I haven't had a single consecutive 3 days period that I haven't listened to that. Subtle, life changing opportunity.