The Libertines

The Libertines - The Libertines
Critic Score
Based on 22 reviews
2004 Ratings: #216 / 458
User Score
Based on 285 ratings
2004 Rank: #236
Liked by 38 people
August 31, 2004 / Release Date
LP / Format
Sanctuary / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Uncut

The Libertines is a record of such raw autobiographical honesty that it carries a weight few others in 2004 can match.

91
SPIN
A dark, tense record, but one still crackling with life.
90
NME
What you have here is the most agonisingly voyeuristic listening experience in rock, ever. It's also some of the most exhilarating and brilliant rock'n'roll of the past 20 years.
80
The Guardian

A step on from Up the Bracket, this album is a winningly idiosyncratic explosion of dizzy pop and punk fury that could yet be honed to perfection.

71
Pitchfork

It's brilliant at points, exhibiting the casual, grimy grace that laced Up the Bracket through English countryside benders, sing-alongs, and pub anthems, but evidently, The Libertines are creatures of excess, and even a good thing can be overdone.

70
Rolling Stone
No band in recent history has better captured the vertiginous experience of falling apart and loving it.
70
AllMusic
If they can somehow hold themselves together without losing the tension that gives them their spark, The Libertines might prove that the people who called them "the most important band of their generation" weren't being hasty after all.
67
Coke Machine Glow
Some of these songs are excellent, in an unfinished but inspired way. But many of the album's tracks evidence a band that's bursting at the seams with talent, only to stumble on unfocused, scattershot song-writing.
Nightwing734
50

This just makes me wanna listen to the arctic monkeys debut, they did this sound it way better

DarkCat
53

(Analbumaday Day 155)

Pretty similar feel to the garage rock Arctic Monkeys started off with, which is quite outdated and probably the type of rock that least interests me. There are absolutely parts that I was engaged with, and it’s easy to see why this was popular at the time, but it really isn’t my thing. Not a fan of the vocals, the tracks don’t really go anywhere, nor do they switch up at all, it’s a typical feel good groove basically the whole time. I can’t ... read more

lilchefremy
90

A frentic, fuzzy, feel-good record. Good shit.

100

replace the national anthem with this album

fiachriamo7
78

okay i get it now
most of it is alright but cant stand me now is so comedically better then all the rest of the songs

Raiksheen
65

Passable

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