★★★★★
So it is that Grace/Wastelands arrives with a sigh of "Are you still here?" rather than the excitement it might once have engendered: not even the news that Blur's Graham Coxon is on hand to help haul Doherty's bath on wheels up the slope has caused much of a ripple. He was recruited by producer Stephen Street, whose continued presence suggests a laudable generosity of spirit, given the shoddy goods he was expected to work with on the last Babyshambles album...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2010-04-02
★★★★★
Though The Libertines split what seems like an age ago now, the rinky-dink Dickensian punk self-mythology dreamt up by Pete Doherty and Carl Barât proved itself remarkably enduring...
- drownedinsound.com
2010-02-12
★★★★★
Sound: All the tracks, are rather sweet poetic ditty, pretty cool amd nicely sung by Pete. This album comprises gentle songs; Doherty's voice has been damaged by drug use, but these tracks are poignant and meaningful. // 9 Lyrics and Singing: 01.Arcady: on his first solo CD he conjures an understated and fantastical vision of his homeland in which jazzy meditations on the 1930s bump up against haunted fairy-tale folk. Generally, soothing sound, worthlistening on a day off...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Self-mythologis-ing is always dull if you're not part of the myth. Those not obsessed with Mott The Hoople found it hard to care if Buffin lost his child-like dreams, while The Clash's propensity for writing songs about The Clash was always properly vexing. Pete Doherty has always been about mythology, having collaged his dreams from an early age into a splotchy wallpaper of English romantic seediness...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Pete Doherty's solo debut, Grace/Wastelands, sounds exactly like a fat Elvis record or a 1970s/'80s Frank Sinatra record. It's the sound of a once domineering (some may even say generation-defining) performer raising his hands and deciding to get by as a character-less crooner making money off what he once was. In the cases of Elvis and Sinatra, they had a few decades on top before becoming walking punch lines. Doherty's done the same in the span of seven years...
- www.prefixmag.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Somehow amid all the tabloid baiting, Pete (sorry, "Peter") Doherty still finds time for songwriting. On his first solo CD, Grace/Wastelands, he conjures an understated and fantastical vision of his homeland in which jazzy meditations on the 1930s bump up against haunted fairy-tale folk. B+ Download This: Listen to the song "Last of the English Roses" on last.fm See all current music reviews from EW
- ew.com
2009-06-04
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