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Peter Doherty by Bridie Cummings
Peter Doherty details his first solo album in nine years.
The Libertines’ Peter Doherty will release Felt Better Alive via Strap Originals on May 16th.
A video for title-track is out now, directed by Rose Bosch and starring French actors Sophie Renoir and Laura Genovino.
“It’s quite bouncy, quite country,” Doherty said. “‘Dredging the mouth of the Humber’ is a line from Hancock about coagulated sprinkled sugar in the bottom of a bowl of cornflakes.”
The chorus I love, ‘And I’d always planned/To sing in a sweet and soulful way as only cowboys can/But my saddle strap snapped like a dog-chewed tourniquet’. It’s an accurate description of how I feel about certain times in my life, y’know?
“Treasures of the Sierra Mardre: you set off on this mission for the gold and you just ended up lost in the mountains, being hunted by bandits.”
Felt Better Alive tracklist:
Calvados
Pot Of Gold
The Day the Baron Died
Stade Océan
Out Of Tune Ballon
Felt Better Alive
Ed Belly
Poca Mahoney’s
Fingee
Prêtre De La Mer
Empty Room