The former “bad boy” of The Libertines seems to have come back from his demons of the past. He signs his return with a new album, “The Fantasy Life of Poetry and Crime”, in collaboration and with the complicity of the French musician Frédéric Lo.
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Peter (formerly Pete) Doherty, born in the north of England, is now a French resident: he has lived for two years in Normandy, in Etretat, with his partner and their two dogs. At 42, it is there that he seems to have calmed down, calmed down, apparently leaving far behind him his excesses of all kinds and drug addictions which had notably earned him a stay in prison.
This better lifestyle was beneficial, since rarely had his voice sounded as good as on this record. Like on this track, You Can’t Keep It From Me Forever.
And as the saying goes: one is good, two is better. It had to be at least two people to make such a beautiful album. The other half of the duo is Frédéric Lo, 57, musician, composer, arranger and producer who collaborated with Alain Chamfort, Stéphan Eicher, pami of others, and especially with another skinned alive, Daniel Darc, deceased in 2013 at age 53. They had composed with four hands another very beautiful disc, Crevecoeurin 2004.
Today, Peter Doherty goes so far as to say that Frédéric Lo has it downright “Safe”. The two artists have visibly pulled themselves up to deliver these twelve tracks, including The Epidemiologist, in which there is no question of Covid-19, at least not directly. The singer cites some of his influences including Dashiell Hammett, Emile Ajar, Humprey Bogart and… Daniel Darc.