Up The Bracket

To celebrate the release of their astonishing debut album, ‘Up The Bracket’, The Libertines are releasing a remastered 20th Anniversary Edition through Rough Trade. In addition to a remaster of the original ‘Up The Bracket’ album, produced by Mick Jones (The Clash), is a live recording from the 100 club in 2002. ‘Up The Bracket’ arrived like a raging bull in a tired postBritpop china shop and introduced the world to The Libertines, a new gang of London bohemians whose ragged tunes, red military tunics, opiated poetry and ‘live now pay never’ lifestyle came to define the millennial angst of the early noughties. At the heart of the band is the blood bond bromance between the ramshackle Music Hall Jagger / Richards, Peter Doherty and Carl Barat, ably assisted by the rock solid rhythm twins John Hassall and Gary Powell. Any bookie worth his salt would have given you short odds on this quartet surviving more than a month or two, given the teetering on the brink lifestyle they chose to lead, but here we are two decades later and our Byronic heroes, though older and wiser, are still fighting the good fight and making music every bit as vital as their debut. The belief, talent and fervour that Doherty spoke of in their earliest manifesto has stood them in good stead. ‘Up The Bracket’, justly considered one of the greatest albums of the noughties. The album, a heady stew of indie rock, skiffle, blues, dub and English bucolic pop, was a huge shot in the arm to a largely redundant music

Tracks

1~1~Vertigo
1~2~Death On The Stairs
1~3~Horror Show
1~4~Time For Heroes
1~5~Boys In The Band
1~6~Radio America
1~7~Up The Bracket
1~8~Tell The King
1~9~The Boy Looked At Johnny
1~10~Begging
1~11~The Good Old Days
1~12~I Get Along

Details

Format: CD
Artist: The Libertines
Release Date: 21 October 2022
Genre: Alternative
Label: Rough Trade Records
Distributor: Inertia Music