Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang You're Dead

The fate of Carl Barat's Dirty Pretty Things will be charted, for obvious reasons, against a certain 'Shambolic collective. Luckily for the 'Things, this debut offering is infinitely better than anything released by the latter and oozes professionalism and tightness by comparison. As the cheeky brass intro makes way for high-tempo, spiky guitaring and coherent vocals, the importance of Barat to his former band's quite considerable success becomes apparent, and joined admirably by Libs, and a one time Cooper Temple Clausian, the band serve up 3 minutes of good times with the paparazzi notable by their absence. [Jon Seller]