Dirty Pretty Things' Waterloo to Anywhere is the debut album by ex-Libertine Carl Barat. The Libertines were a major influence on the current crop of British bands that are making some headway like Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys and The Cribs. Six songs from the album including the single "Bang Bang You're Dead" were produced and recorded in Los Angeles with Dave Sardy (Jet, Wolfmother). Along with Carl, the other band members are ex-Libertines guitarist Anthony Rossomando amd drummer Gary Powell and ex-Co...   [ read more ]

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Carl Barat's reputation as the (slightly more) responsible Libertine continues with Waterloo to Anywhere, his first album with Dirty Pretty Things, which also features former Libs drummer Gary Powell and guitarist Anthony Rossamundo, who filled in for Pete Doherty on the Libertines' last few tours. The album plays like a cleaner, slightly more straightforward version of the mod-punk Barat contributed to his former band: tightly engineered blasts of sound like {&"Deadwood...   [ read more ]

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For most of Romance at Short Notice, Carl Barat and the rest of Dirty Pretty Things seem determined to move as far past the lingering ghosts of the Libertines and their debut album, Waterloo to Anywhere, as possible. Romance at Short Notice isn't just much more polished than the band's scrappy debut, it's also much more eclectic -- to a fault. The album crashes in on "Buzzards and Crows," a brooding manifesto against "a scene self-obsessed" embellished with carnivalesque organs, a flat...   [ read more ]

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