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8.0
58256
8.0 |
musicOMH
A consistent and accomplished return from Babyshambles. While it does lack some of the energy of the band’s previous work, there is far more focus from start to finish than is usually present during a record involving Doherty
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8.0
58260
8.0 |
Mojo
A sometimes great, often enchanting, and always disarmingly self-aware portrait of a doomed and wounded hero. Print edition only
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8.0
58375
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
This album deserves to remind us, regardless of all the tragedy, how enjoyable Doherty and friends can actually be
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8.0
58466
8.0 |
The Quietus
It's a sunny, sweet, excitable record, but it doesn't forget a couple of moments of contrast
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7.0
58257
7.0 |
The 405
An amalgamation of everything that we know Pete Doherty is good at, and a lot more
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7.0
58258
7.0 |
NME
Moving to France has done him good, and the city's influence runs through the record
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7.0
58352
7.0 |
Clash
Let’s just hope music remains the main addiction
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7.0
59546
7.0 |
FasterLouder
The best material from the band to date
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6.6
59895
6.6 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
No matter how good any future single/album is, it’ll always be tainted by what ifs
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6.5
58391
6.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
As accessible, and as listenable, as anyone may have hoped for
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6.0
58479
6.0 |
The Guardian
Eight years on from their 2005 debut and despite Pete Doherty's talent for distraction, Babyshambles have matured, musically at least, into a proper band
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6.0
58584
6.0 |
DIY
You'd be brave to categorise it as a new dawn, but it has enough about it to suggest the sun may not have yet set on Pete Doherty: musician
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6.0
58358
6.0 |
The Scotsman
Like Doherty himself, what Sequel to the Prequel lacks in core creativity it makes up for in personality
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6.0
58363
6.0 |
Evening Standard
These boys are in distinct danger of turning professional
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6.0
58374
6.0 |
Time Out
For the uncynical, ‘Sequel to the Prequel’ is the shambolically beautiful album that Pete always had the promise to make
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6.0
58259
6.0 |
Q
A hit-and-miss affair that sporadically hints at what the man is capable of. Print edition only
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5.0
58255
5.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Babyshambles once promised to keep the Arcadian dream alive. Instead, they’ve fizzled out in a fit of mediocrity
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4.0
58306
4.0 |
The Independent
The bawled slur that passes for Doherty's vocals is less agreeable the older he gets
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4.0
58309
4.0 |
Independent on Sunday
At the age of 34, a supposed poet ought to have more in the locker
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3.0
59224
3.0 |
PopMatters
He leans more towards his softer, folksy side here than he did on Shotter’s Nation, and works hard to preserve the instrumental slop and shamble, while ignoring compelling melodies, energy, or a sense of purpose
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1.0
58750
1.0 |
The Fly
Half-paced, dreary, out-of-date, boorish, indulgent, vapid, and turgid
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