Babyshambles – Down In Albion

Description

EXPECTED 12TH DECEMBER 2025

2Lp Cream Vinyl

Accompanying the album’s original 16 tracks, the anniversary edition includes five carefully chosen songs from the band’s archives, with several – despite bootleg fame amongst the band’s fanbase – getting their first official release.

Gang Of Gin and 352 Days were both recorded around the album and were considered as possible b-sides but never officially released, while Why Did You Break My Heart/Piracy did feature on the flip side of the single release of Albion.

Do You Know Me and My Darling Clementine are both taken from the fan favourite session for Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show, which was recorded in October 2004 and helped to lay the creative foundations for Down In Albion.

Initially formed in 2003 when Doherty was temporarily excluded from The Libertines, Babyshambles quickly evolved into an alternative creative outlet for the songwriter, allowing him to explore a different range of themes within a fluid, spontaneous musical landscape

TRACKLIST

A1. La Belle et la Bete

A2. Fuck Forever

A3. A’rebours

A4. The 32nd of December

A5. Pipedown

A6. Sticks and Stones

B1. Killamangiro

B2. 8 Dead Boys

B3. In Love with a Feeling

B4. Pentonville

B5. What Katy Did Next

C1. Albion

C2. Back from the Dead

C3. Loyalty Song

C4. Up the Morning

C5. Merry Go Round

D1. Gang of Gin

D2. 352 Days

D3. Do You Know Me (BBC Radio 1 Session)

D4. My Darling Clementine (BBC Radio 1 Session)

D5. Why Did You Break My Heart/Piracy