Shotter's Nation

Infobox Album
Name = Shotter's Nation
Type = studio
Artist = Babyshambles


Released = October 1, 2007 (UK) October 23, 2007 (US)
Recorded = Olympic Studios, London, England: 2007
Genre = Indie rock Post-punk Revival
Length = 43:11
Label = EMI, Parlophone (UK) Astralwerks (US)
Producer = Stephen Street
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://wm06.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:a9ftxz9hldke~T1 link]
*"Irish Independent" Rating|4|5 [http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/cd-reviews-pete-delivers-1091375.html link]
*"NME" (8/10) [http://www.nme.com/reviews/babyshambles/9019 link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/16528261/review/16927869/shotters_nation link]
*"The Independent" Rating|3|5 [http://arts.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article3005341.ece link]
*"The Observer" Rating|5|5 [http://music.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,2168388,00.html link]
*"The Sunday Times" Rating|2|5 [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article2544792.ece link]
*"The Times" Rating|3|5 [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article2529169.ece link]
*Time Off Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.timeoff.com.au/index.php?area=Archive&pg=42&subarea=37&sel=7176&showcontent=7176 link]
*"Uncut" Rating|5|5 [http://uncut.co.uk/music/babyshambles/reviews/10386 link]
Last album = "The Blinding EP" (2006)
This album = "Shotter's Nation" (2007)
Next album = "Oh What a Lovely Tour" (2008)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Pete Doherty
Type = studio album
Last album = "The Blinding EP" (2006)
This album = "Shotter's Nation" (2007)
Next album = "Time for Heroes - The Best of The Libertines" (2007)

"Shotter's Nation" is the second album by English rock band Babyshambles and was released in the United Kingdom on October 1, 2007 by Parlophone [cite web|url=http://uk.news.launch.yahoo.com/dyna/article.html?a=/070809/340/hf477.html&e=l_news_dm|title=Doherty addresses "Shotter's Nation" |accessdate=2007-08-09 |date=2007-08-16 |publisher=Yahoo! Music] to generally favourable reviews. [cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/babyshambles/shottersnation|title=Shotter's Nation by Babyshambles|publisher=Metacritic|accessdate=2007-10-25] [cite web|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL1013659720071012|title=New Pete Doherty album divides critics|accessdate=2007-10-14|last=Vidalon|first=Dominique|date=2007-10-12|publisher=Reuters] In the United States the album was released on October 23, 2007 by Astralwerks.cite web|title=Babyshambles album gets a US release|publisher="NME"|date=2007-08-22|url=http://www.nme.com/news/30580|accessdate=2007-08-22] The first single from the album, "Delivery", was released on September 17, 2007.cite web |title=Babyshambles second album details emerge|publisher="NME"|date=2007-07-30|url=http://www.nme.com/news/babyshambles/30008|accessdate=2007-08-16 ]

The album was produced by Stephen Street and recorded at Olympic Studios in London, England. [cite web |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/babyshambles%20finalise%20autumn%20release_1040820 |title=BABYSHAMBLES FINALISE AUTUMN RELEASE |accessdate=2007-08-16 |date=2007-08-16 |publisher=contactmusic.com] The acoustic closer, "The Lost Art of Murder", features a guest appearance from Bert Jansch. [cite web |title=First Thoughts On The New Babyshambles Album |first=Allen |last=Jones |authorlink=Allan Jones (editor) |accessdate=2007-08-16 |date=23 July, 2007 |publisher=Uncut.co.uk |url=http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/index.php?blog=5&p=367&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#more367]

It is the first Pete Doherty album without Mick Jones producing and his first released by a major label.

In an interview with NME magazine, Pete Doherty said that The Strokes (and solo) guitar player Albert Hammond, Jr., plays guitar on the album. Doherty did not mention the track's name, but did say it was an extremely short three bars of music.A limited edition of the album contains a DVD with a 40-minute track-by-track interview, 5 live songs recorded at the Boogaloo on 5 July, 2007, and the music video of "Delivery".

The album's cover painting by Alizé Meurisse is based on the painting "The Death of Chatterton" by Henry Wallis (1856). It also originally featured an image of Kate Moss, which was replaced with an unknown lookalike. [cite web |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/moss%20scrapped%20from%20babyshambles%20cover_1045153|title=MOSS 'SCRAPPED FROM BABYSHAMBLES COVER'|accessdate=2007-10-31|date=2007-09-29|publisher=contactmusic.com]

It was reported Kate Moss has given up the royalties for the songs she co-wrote on "Shotter's Nation". [cite web |url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article407090.ece |title=Kate Moss gives Pete four-sum |accessdate=2007-11-07 |date=2007-10-31 |work=The Sun]

The song "There She Goes" has been compared to "Lovecats" by The Cure by Garry Mulholland of "The Observer". [cite web |url=http://music.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,2168388,00.html |title=Babyshambles, Shotter's Nation |accessdate=2007-11-25 |last=Mulholland |first=Garry |date=2007-09-16 |work=The Observer] Drew McConnell revealed in interviews that the band wanted the song to sound something like "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed.fact|date=November 2007

The band promoted the album by appearing in TV and radio shows in France and in the UK. They then played "Delivery" at the MTV EMA. The performance has been widely acclaimed.

There is a video for "French Dog Blues" featuring an animated French Dog. Ian Brown has songwriting credits to the aforementioned song. This is because the song contains a verse from "Deep Pile Dreams", a song from Brown's first album "Unfinished Monkey Business".

The album was #14 in NME albums of the year.

Track listing

# "Carry On Up the Morning" (Peter Doherty, Michael Whitnall) – 2:58
# "Delivery" (Doherty, Whitnall) – 2:42
# "You Talk" (Doherty, Kate Moss) – 3:30
# "UnBiloTitled" (Doherty, Peter Wolfe, Adam Ficek) – 3:52
# "Side of the Road" (Doherty) – 2:09
# "Crumb Begging Baghead" (Doherty, Whitnall) – 3:44
# "Unstookie Titled" (Doherty, Whitnall, Ficek) – 4:30
# "French Dog Blues" (Doherty, Ian Brown, Moss) – 3:32
# "There She Goes" (Doherty) – 3:36
# "Baddie's Boogie" (Doherty, Whitnall, Moss) – 3:55
# "Deft Left Hand" (Doherty, Whitnall, Moss) – 4:04
# "Lost Art of Murder" (Doherty) – 4:38

Limited edition bonus DVD: "We Like to Boogaloo"

* The Boogaloo Tapes (Track by track interview)
* Live at the Boogaloo
# "Delivery"
# "Baddie's Boogie"
# "UnBiloTitled"
# "There She Goes"
# "Pipedown"
* "Delivery" (Video)

"French" edition bonus DVD: "Drew's Birthday: Live à L'Elysée Montmartre"

*Live at l'Elysee Montmartre recorded on November 13th, 2006
# "Pipedown"
# "Beg Steal or Borrow"
# "You Talk"
# "Sedative"
# "Killamangiro"
# "Time for Heroes"
# "Albion"
# "Fuck Forever"
# "The Blinding"
# "Backstage footage"It will be released on May 12th, 2008

Personnel

* Peter Doherty – guitar, vocals, design
* Michael Whitnall – guitar, vocals
* Adam Ficek – drums, percussion, keyboards, vocals
* Drew McConnell – bass guitar, double bass, vocals
* Stephen Large – keyboards on track 4 and 8
* Bert Jansch – guitar on track 12
* Stephen Street – producer, mixing, additional guitar on tracks 11 and 12
* Tom Stanley – engineer
* Mo Hausler – assistant engineer
* Cenzo Townshend – mixing
* Neil Comber – assistant mix engineer
* Traffic – design
* Alizé Meurisse – cover painting
* Todd Korol – cover photograph

ingles

*Delivery (17 June), (2007), (Parlophone) #6
*You Talk (3 December), (2007), (Parlophone) #54

Chart performance

ee also

*Babyshambles discography

References