Barat Band’s New Sound

Exclusive: Dirty Pretty Things change musical direction

04 Mar 2008 - Dirty Pretty Things frontman Carl Barat and guitarist Anthony Rossomando have exclusively revealed to The Music Week that fans can expect a change of style on their new record This Is Where The Truth Begins.

“We’re very excited by it.” Barat enthuses, “We’ve been away for a long, long time. Working hard on a very different album to what we’ve done before. And we’ve finally got its identity as a band, and as a whole.

“We feel like we’ve come on in leaps and bounds. The last album [2006’s Waterloo To Anywhere] was really written on the run, whereas this album….”


“… wasn’t under the gun,” chips in Rossomando. “We’ve been away for a long time. But it’s a bit metaphorical as well as we’ve been ‘here’ a lot as well.” He adds cryptically. “But we were also away from each other a bit, before coming back together and congealing in a new way.”

“Congealing?” Barat quizzes.

“You can't ever make the same thing twice.”
- Anthony Rossomando

“So we have new songs,” his bandmate carries on regardless, “Different sounding songs with different sounds we’re using. And you can’t ever make the same thing twice. I like it a lot more than the first one. It’s good.”

“I think we’ve come on in leaps and bounds since the first one,” reiterates Barat, “And we’re just excited to get it out there.”

The former Libertine also expressed a certain relief that people seem to have stopped haranguing him about a reunion with Pete Doherty, saying, “Yeah, it’s nice not to have to worry about that, eh?”

New songs expected to be featured on This Is Where The Truth Begins include Hippy's Son, Come Closer and Plastic Hearts

The album is expected in June.

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Matt Everitt