The Blinding EP sounds more coherent and direct than anything Babyshambles have ever done.  Full text...

Let’s face it: Pete Doherty’s become Kevin Federline. He’s more pop meta-narrative than music, more tabloid cover than album shot.  Full text...

Babyshambles' shambolic frontman reportedly lives life to extremes, but his music too often plays it safe-- an intoxicated echo of past icons from a man still too (moderately) talented to flame out entirely.  Full text...

Babyshambles' first major-label effort, predictably, can't deliver such an album, but they're a hint that maybe, just maybe -- minus the drugs, the fisticuffs and the zany behavior -- Doherty's music still has a shot at being what he's remembered for. It's a slim hope, for sure, but with The Blinding, he and his ragtag crew inch closer to greatness.  Full text...

As usual, the musical manner is part Smiths jangle-pop, part proletarian indie, spiced with a soupçon of 2-Tone ska-pop.  Full text...