''Shotter's Nation'' is the second

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and was released in the

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on 1 October 2007 by

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to generally favourable reviews. In the

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the album was released on 23 October 2007 by

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. The first single from the album, " Delivery", was released on 17 September 2007. The album was produced by

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and recorded at

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. The acoustic closer, "The Lost Art of Murder", features a guest appearance from

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. It is the first Pete Doherty album without Mick Jones producing and his first released by a major label. In an interview with ''

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'' magazine, Pete Doherty said that

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(and solo) guitar player Albert Hammond, Jr., plays guitar on the album. Doherty did not mention the track's name, but did say it was an extremely short three bars of music. A limited edition of the album contains a DVD with a 40-minute track-by-track interview, 5 live songs recorded at the Boogaloo on 5 July 2007, and the music video of "Delivery". The album's cover painting by Alizé Meurisse is based on the painting ''

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'' by Henry Wallis (1856). It also originally featured an image of Kate Moss, which was replaced with an unknown lookalike. The song "There She Goes" has been compared to "Lovecats" by

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by Garry Mulholland of ''

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''. Drew McConnell revealed in interviews that the band wanted the song to sound something like "Walk on the Wild Side" by

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. The band promoted the album by appearing in TV and radio shows in France and in the UK. They then played "Delivery" at the

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. The performance has been widely acclaimed. There is a video for "French Dog Blues" featuring an animated French Dog.

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has songwriting credits to the aforementioned song. This is because the song contains a verse from "Deep Pile Dreams", a song from Brown's first album ''

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''. The album was #14 in ''NME'' albums of the year.

Reception

The album was released to generally favorable reviews.

Track listing

# "Carry On Up the Morning" ( Peter Doherty, Michael Whitnall) – 2:57 # " Delivery" (Doherty, Whitnall) – 2:41 # "

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" (Doherty,

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) – 3:30 # "UnBiloTitled" (Doherty, Peter Wolfe,

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) – 3:52 # "Side of the Road" (Doherty) – 2:09 # "Crumb Begging Baghead" (Doherty, Whitnall) – 3:43 # "Unstookie Titled" (Doherty, Whitnall, Ficek) – 4:30 # "French Dog Blues" (Doherty,

, Moss) – 3:32 # "There She Goes" (Doherty) – 3:36 # "Baddie's Boogie" (Toczek, Doherty, Whitnall, Moss) – 3:55 # "Deft Left Hand" (Doherty, Whitnall, Moss) – 4:04 # "Lost Art of Murder" (Doherty) – 4:38

Limited edition bonus DVD: ''We Like to Boogaloo''

* The Boogaloo Tapes (Track by track interview)which actually contains a hidden video (or DVD "easter egg") while the band are talking about the song Crumb Begging Baghead, a French dog appears, and pressing enter selects this video. * Live at the Boogaloo # "Delivery" # "Baddie's Boogie" # "UnBiloTitled" # "There She Goes" # "Pipedown" * "Delivery" (Video)

"French" edition bonus DVD: ''Drew's Birthday: Live à L'Elysée Montmartre''

*Live at l'Elysee Montmartre recorded on 13 November 2006 # "Pipedown" # "Beg Steal or Borrow" # "You Talk" # "Sedative" # "Killamangiro" # "Time for Heroes" # "Albion" # "Fuck Forever" # "The Blinding" # "Backstage footage" It was released on 12 May 2008

Personnel

* Peter Doherty –

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, design * Michael Whitnall – guitar, vocals *

–

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, vocals *

Drew McConnell Drew McConnell (born 10 November 1978 in Dublin, Ireland) is the bass guitarist and backing vocalist with Babyshambles, the band formed and fronted by frontman of the Libertines, Pete Doherty, and for former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher's band ...

–

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, vocals * Stephen Large – keyboards on track 4 and 8 *

– guitar on track 12 *

– producer, mixing, additional guitar on tracks 11 and 12 * Tom Stanley –

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* Mo Hausler – assistant engineer * Cenzo Townshend – mixing * Neil Comber – assistant mix engineer * Traffic – design * Alizé Meurisse – cover painting * Todd Korol – cover photograph

Singles

* Delivery (17 June), (2007), (

) #6 *

(3 December), (2007), (

) #54

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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