The Libertines Confirm Release Date For Long Awaited Third Album
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 02 July 2015
Their first album in more than ten years will be out on September 4th.
It’s the moment for which the indie world’s been waiting for over a decade – the third album by The Libertines has a title and release date! Anthems For Doomed Youth, their first since their acrimonious split 11 years ago, will be available on September 4th via Virgin EMI.
The new album will be the first new material since their 2004 self-titled chart-topping LP, just before which co-songwriter and singer Pete Doherty was ejected from the band for his burgeoning heroin addiction. The group soldiered on with Anthony Rossomondo in his place in order to fulfil their summer festival appearances, but disbanded in December that year.
The Libertines taking to the stage at Glastonbury in June 2015
“People are going to love it,” Doherty told the NME last month about the new record. “There’s a miracle aspect to actually getting it done and all getting together to do it. We’re all really proud of it.”
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Long-suffering partner in crime Carl Barat, who released his own solo album with his backing band The Jackals earlier in 2015, added: “It’s not us repeating ourselves, that’s for sure. We’ve definitely moved on.”
Recent years have not only seen a number of big artists recording again after significant periods on hiatus, but also releasing very good albums too: My Bloody Valentine, Portishead, David Bowie to name but a few. More will be expected from the Libs than a mere victory lap, more than just one last knees-up around the old Joanna (Cockney rhyming slang alert!) Fingers crossed!
The reunited quartet played the “secret slot” at Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage on Friday, a vacant gap in the schedule caused by Florence + The Machine being upgraded to headliner in place of the absent Foo Fighters. They played a set of their early noughties classics mixed in with a few tracks from the new album, which were generally well-received.
The full tracklisting for Anthems For Doomed Youth is as follows:
1. Barbarians
2. Gunga Din
3. Fame and Fortune
4. Anthem for Doomed Youth
5. Heart of the Matter
6. Belly of the Beast
7. Iceman
8. You’re My Waterloo
9. Fury of Chonburi
10. The Milkman’s Horse
11. Glasgow Coma Scale Blues
12. Dead For Love
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