Along The Pilgrims Way - Albion Band (The)

Advantages: encouraging continuation of a diverse form of indie/alternative
Disadvantages: tough cookie to crack

...This album is quite simply an ironic insight into what people sound like when they are writing and performing music simply for the personal satisfaction, and for the satisfaction of the many adoring fans who wish to thrust themselves 'pon Pete Doherty and his band of merry men: "Down In Albion" uses an intelegant mix of quiet and subtle songs such as "merry go round" and "loyalty song", along with stark and harsh tones that really put some punch into the CD, almost to a predicatble levle, in order to create some auidiable aesthetics, from this principle, there are 2 elements of this album that really make it stand out: 1) the lyrial content. Those who were fans of The Libertines will know Pete Doherty is a man who posesses a way with words, and this is demonstrated, with no exception, in "Down In Albion". This is obviously only a minor... Read review

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Advantages: Groundbreaking first release from monsters of rock
Disadvantages: You will fall in love

...This band will take you on a whirlwind adventure through the back alleys of Soho, down Cally road, out through Camden and into Albion. As quintessentially english as croquet and tea and crumpets The Libertines do not fail to deliver, and this album takes every good and bad point about London and England and twists them into something indescribably beautiful. There are no let downs on this album, every single second is a classic and irrefutably flawless in an unpolished way, from the delicately melancholy ending to Tell The King to Pete's deranged "Geeeooouutavit" at the begining of Up The Bracket. The Libertines set the standard for bands of today, this album is worth its weight in gold, definately not to be missed. This album is available from most high street music stores, certainly any selling any alternatine rock music... Read review

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Advantages: A couple of decent tracks
Disadvantages: Too polished in terms of production

...crash and burn as so easily could have happened, this is just not the strong second album from the band that I was hoping for. In truth 'Shotters Nation' is a hell of a lot more listenable than 'Down In Albion' was, but given the monstrous mess of a release that the last album was; this is no great achievement. Having said this however, I actually prefer 'Down In Albion' as at least it was interesting, which is more than can be said about this latest offering. Plodding along and showing extremely little in the way of innovation, 'Shotters Nation' provides twelve tracks of neatly produced mediocrity. There are of course a couple of moments here that do provide a decent amount of entertainment in this release, however sadly are few and far between. Opening track 'Carry On Up The Morning' actually introduces the album fairly promisingly... Read review

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