Dirty Pretty Things Releasing Debut Album 'Waterloo To Anywhere'

NEW YORK, NY (Interscope Records) - Postmarked from London, Dirty Pretty Things is due to wash up on American shores this August. Filled with gutsy proclamations, enlightened reflections, gritty romanticism and the ol' piss and vinegar, "Waterloo To Anywhere" is their bruising debut album. Having already made their mark on the British charts (via a debut at number No 3 and a top five single "Bang Bang You're Dead"), Dirty Pretty Things have come to deliver their uncompromised rock to eager greedy fans stateside.

As the story goes, not very long after the dissolving of his former project The Libertines, singer/guitarist Carl Barat enlisted follow musical soldiers Gary Powell (drums), Anthony Rossomano (guitar) - both of whom performed with Barat in the final days of the Libertines - and former Cooper Temple Clause bassist Didz Hammond to make the music the world needed to hear. "There was a lot to get out," Barat says with a slight grin.

Following a string of intimate performances in London and Paris and some larger gigs in Brazil and Italy, the gang went off to Los Angeles in November of 2005 to begin committing the poetic fury of "Waterloo To Anywhere" to tape with producer Dave Sardy (Oasis, Jet, Wolfmother, Helmet). With six songs under their Sardy belt, it was off to Glasgow to record with Tony Doogan (Belle and Sebastian, Mogwai) and finish 'er up.

The album's debut single, the sharp-tongued anthem "Bang Bang You're Dead" is a good starting point. From there, you can tango with the thrashing "You F*cking Love It," the soulful "Gin and Milk," the sea-shanty turned punk explosion "The Gentry Grove" and the eight other songs so dutifully chosen by the boys to make "Waterloo To Anywhere" 37 minutes of white-knuckled, black-and-blue eyed soul-filled bliss.

"Smart; savvy; insanely resilient: 'Waterloo To Anywhere' is just the ticket" - NME
"A terrific, spiky, guitar insta-classic" - NME on "Bang Bang You're Dead" Single Of The Week April 11, 2006