The Libertines : Time For Heroes
Tally ho!
Tally ho! ‘Time For Heroes’ is the sound of Britpop meets Baudelaire, the last gasp of the young, beautiful and doomed clinging to their boozy dreams like ballast as the Good Ship Albion sinks beneath the waves of tacky pop culture.
Like the whole of’ debut album, it’s as rough and scruffy as a rag-and-bone man’s dog. But even as Carl Barat wrestles and reels through lines about "coughing up blood", this charming punk serenade shimmers with romanticism and vibrates with raffish tunefulness. We suspect that even when fall off a bar-stool and smash all their teeth out on the floor, they do it with a certain elegance.
Louis Pattison
Like the whole of’ debut album, it’s as rough and scruffy as a rag-and-bone man’s dog. But even as Carl Barat wrestles and reels through lines about "coughing up blood", this charming punk serenade shimmers with romanticism and vibrates with raffish tunefulness. We suspect that even when fall off a bar-stool and smash all their teeth out on the floor, they do it with a certain elegance.
Louis Pattison
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