Album
Up the Bracket
2002Alternative · Music · Rock · Indie Rock · College Rock · Punk · Pop · Britpop
England’s raucous pub prophets deliver a pint-glass-smashing good time.
Tracks
- 12:38
- 23:24
- 32:34
- 42:40
- 53:42
- 63:44
- 72:38
- 83:24
- 92:38
- 103:20
- 112:59
- 122:53
About this album
As The Strokes and White Stripes were importing stateside garage-rock grit to the UK in 2002, Up the Bracket channeled raucous British raconteurs like The Kinks and The Jam to mobilize a new generation of mouthy wasters. From the tetchy title track to the tipsy “Boys in the Band,” The Libertines are the pub-stool prophets who want to confront you one moment and put you in a loving headlock the next—all while charming you into buying their next drink.