The Libertines Up the Bracket

Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2003" - "...The thrill is hearing the Libertines try--not too hard--to keep it together..."
3.5 stars out of 5 - "[N]o band in recent history has better captured the vertiginous experience of falling apart and loving it."
Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "[T]he Libs still sound like a gloriously combustible rock & roll mess..."
"...This is music to play in dark, velvety, womblike bars; this is music to play while buying cigarettes....If the Libertines represent the first wave of well-Stroked clone bands, we are optimistic..." - Grade: A
"[A] dark, tense record, but one still crackling with life." - Grade: A-
Ranked #30 in Spin's "40 Best Albums of the Year" - "Barat concludes this beautiful train wreck with a warm-hearted yet cold-eyed three-song intervention..."
4 stars out of 5 - "...This lot splutter like unsafe fireworks. They could and should be huge..."
4 stars out of 5 - "[B]rimming with character, easily surpassing their debut, its energy level like a battery charge."
"[L]ike The Clash's LONDON CALLING before it, repeat listenings reveal an endless succession of gorgeous hooks, spindly solos and tunes to hum forever."
5 stars out of 5 - "If rock 'n' roll is all about freedom and the consequences that come with that, there's never been a better handbook."
Ranked #22 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "[Their] punk discharges on love, drugs and mutual loathing sound beautifully, if brutally, honest."
"[T]he catchy THE LIBERTINES mostly proves the Brits have always taken their pop much more seriously than we ever have."
"At their best, the Libertines are a band worthy of the overseas claims that they're the next Kinks or Jam."
Ranked #57 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "The Libertines slap you in the chops like a Francis Bacon painting."
4 stars out of 5 - "[A]n extraordinary, challenging second LP, suffused with tenderness and anger..."