Peter Doherty - Felt Better Alive

It can’t be a coincidence that since Peter Doherty got fully clean six years ago his output has had a renewed tightness and focus.

Born in the rural quietude of Normandy and shaped by a change in circumstances (the songs were written when wife Katia de Vidas was pregnant), Felt Better Alive maintains his purple patch.

While he’s been shrewd in his recent collaborators (Frederic Lo and a stable Libertines) who push him a way that the Puta Madres – for example – do not, this time round Liam Gallagher guitarist Mike Moore has sharpened Doherty’s trademark rawness.

The songs on this solo album are polished, structured and deliberate, yet they never lose that frayed charm that made him a compelling figure to begin with.

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