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A Peace Summit With the Libertines Lads
Pete Doherty and Carl Barât agreed to some ground rules to make their new album. But what about an interview?
The operative word is “us.” Barât, along with Pete Doherty, are the core of the Libertines, the cataclysmic British indie rockers who dueled with guitars, pens, and fists to create some of the most defining music of the aughts. Barât and Doherty managed to work through enough of their shit to record two albums, 2002’s Up the Bracket and 2004’s The Libertines, until an inevitable breakup put them on fractured paths. But their latest release, All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade finds them during what they agree is the strongest alliance of their careers: Doherty has mellowed due to being sober from hard drugs for four years, while Barât was “very conscious of keeping a continuity together in our mood and connectivity.” Hassall and Powell are even credited as writers for the first time.
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