Review: Babyshambles
Babyshambles "Down In Albion": Aidin Vaziri | Pete Doherty is most famous for getting wasted and arrested. The fact that he's also a musician seems almost incidental. He was given the boot from promising British punkers the Libertines in 2004 after he burglarized his band mate's flat. Attempts to get his pop career back on track since then have met with unusual hurdles: Doherty habitually missed shows, spent three months in jail for assaulting a documentary filmmaker, even reportedly skipped out on an Oasis gig because he was engaged in a fistfight with Kate Moss. His latest project, Babyshambles, is another miss. Haphazardly produced by the Clash's Mick Jones, songs like "F -- Forever" and "Killamangiro" find Doherty wallowing in self-pity without expressing any real interest in standing up -- or any real interest in hammering out a proper tune. It's the kind of album only a junkie could love.
posted by Aidin at Monday, March 13, 2006
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