The Libertines had a failed writing trip to Jamaica before finishing their new album.
Pete Doherty and Carl Barat’s band have dropped new single ‘Run Run Run’ and confirmed their new record ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ is due for release on March 8 but they admitted that getting the album finished was not easy.
Speaking on ‘The Chris Moyles Show’ on Radio X, Pete said: “We did something we’d never done for ever so long, which was just sit down together with guitars and try and write songs, and we thought we’d done amazing job and then when we got back [from Jamaica] and sat everyone down to play what we did, we sort of looked at each other and were a little bit [groans].”
However, things went better in the UK.
He said: “We tried again in Margate, and we managed to get a collection of songs together, and then we went over to Normandy and honed them a bit and so between three or four old songs that we never finished, and five or six brand new songs, we got an album.”
Carl added that this record feels like their most cohesive yet.
He said: “Our first record was born out of panic, and disbelief that we were actually allowed to be in a studio; the second was born of total strife and misery; the third was born of complexity; this one feels like we were all actually in the same place, at the same speed, and we really connected.”
And, Pete hopes that there will be more Libertines albums in the future.
He said: “I feel like we’ve completed a cycle of some kind as a band, and finally now we can add these songs to the set list, because we’ve got some bangers in there. Now we’ve opened the hotel and used the studio ourselves and it’s all worked out—more Libertines records? I should hope so!”