Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo to Anywhere

After the dissolving of The Libertines, Carl Barat and Pete Doherty both, rather quickly, founded their own, new Post-Libertines bands. Barat's is the focus of this post. Dirty Pretty Things (DPT) features Barat as the lead, and maintained the 'tines drummer, and put together a couple of other high-profile musicians to complete the lineup. This album, Waterloo to Anywhere, which came out in May 2006 features some of the best parts of the Libertines and is an amazing album, start to finish.

Catchy tracks, lyrics, riffs with a certain rawness makes this album so great. Heralded by the critics as, "not too bad", in comparison to the Libertines works, this album was bound to be judged with the Libertines in mind... I think that this album is just as good as any of the Libertines albums and if you enjoy them then take the plunge and check this one out. After all, Carl was the main vocalist on a majority of the Libertines songs, so this transition will be an easy one for you.

You can nab the torrent here.

Here is DPT's biography on AMG. And the album reivews on MetaCritic here.

Check out their lead single from the album, "Bang Bang Your Dead"