Up The Bracket - The Libertines Reviews

After The Libertines released their first single 'What a Waster' that became well known in the underground music circle for the high amounts of swearing and its banning from radio stations came their first album 'Up The Bracket' This album is widely renowned as one of the best albums to be released this decade and is their best album. ...  Read the complete review

The libertines are a band that have polarised opinion, often with the help of tabloid sensationalism, yet I still find it hard to believe that anyone who gives this album a listen, without any pre-formulated opinions, shall fail to identify with such a buoyant youthful energy. Being released in 2002 this was the quintessential album of my ...  Read the complete review

One of, if not THE most important band of the 00's. Forget what you read about Pete Doherty, forget about his drug use or his relatively scruffy appearance, this is about his talent as a singer/songwriter and his brilliant chemistry with Carl Barat. Up The Brakcet is a brilliant album and a massive influence on many of the ...  Read the complete review

It's a terrible shame that so many people see the headlines about Pete Doherty's infamous antics, and immediately associate everything he has ever touched as awful, drug addled nonsense. That phrase in particular may sound familiar, because it is the sort of thing cited time and again by his critics. Now, in no way do I agree with his behaviour, ...  Read the complete review

One of my favourite albums of all time and never fails to make me sad that they are still not together! Up the Bracket has to be the biggest and best debut album since Definitely Maybe by Oasis. The quality of the lyrics and melody shine through from the first track to the last with Pete Doherty's sometimes soft, suttle and ...  Read the complete review

After listening to Up The Bracket I felt that I had just finished the London Marathon. I felt exhausted, out of breath, my body aching all over but ultimately I felt a sense of reward that I had listened to something that could change my life. When you look back at the music industry before the Libertines we had a very drab and lack ...  Read the complete review

The Libertines perfectly capture the feelings of a troubled youth. The music is anarchic, catchy and full of energy and the raw barely there production only strengthens their sound. Track by track... 1. Vertigo ***** The buzzing guitar riff and dual lead vocals are a perfect beginning to the debut. The lyrics you should expect from ...  Read the complete review

Up The Bracket, the debut album from indie royalty The Libertines is a bit of a strange album to try and review. It would have been good to have discovered the band in their earliest days, before the press got a hold of them, to be able to have heard them before your views were tainted, either by the ridiculous overhyping they received in the ...  Read the complete review

The Libertines debut album came as a breath of fresh air to the British music scene when Pete Doherty and Carl Barat burst onto the scene reviving British music from the leftovers of 1990's britpop. Up The Bracket mnages to capture the bands live energy and unlike their final self-titled album is more unpolished, but it is all the better for this. ...  Read the complete review

The Libertines first burst onto our scenes a few years back now, playing various local venues, and touring as support acts. A couple of early plays on Radio 1 suddenly brought them to music lovers' ears. A decent set at the Carling festivals didnt hurt them either. NME rave about them, so who are they? They are a band, that to me ...  Read the complete review

The Libertines - Up the bracket. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pete Doherty it seems like you cannot open a newspaper with out some headline or other screaming about his on/off relationship with Kate Moss or his appalling drug habit. What you don’t seem to read about is his music, the thing that gave him his ...  Read the complete review

Hi guys. I've not written you lovely people a review for a very very long time, I come back finding that about 3 members have added me to their "People I trust List", ( Wow - I'm popular! Not a clue why, but still! ) my Alex Parks review has been crowned. ( How lovely of you guys! ) and that my joke of the day in my profile has ...  Read the complete review

The Libertines appeared from nowhere during 2002 and caputered the imagination of a lot of people with a retro style of rock music that sounded like it came from days gone by. Well even though after just one album it appears the band have already gone to pot with lead singer Pete Doherty appearing in court having broken into band mate Karl Barat's ...  Read the complete review