With “Night Of The Hunter”, The Libertines release another track from their new record “All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade”, which will be released on March 8th, 2024 and will consist of eleven tracks. The band around Carl Barât and Peter Doherty shares the single directly along with the music video.
“Night Of The Hunter” by The Libertines:
Doherty said in the press release for “Night Of The Hunter”: “The title comes from Charles Laughton’s directorial debut ‘Night Of The Hunter’, starring Robert Mitchum as a preacher with ‘LOVE’ and ‘HATE’ tattooed on his knuckles. The song is about not always being one step ahead of the law. This guy doesn’t really know why his buddy is dead, but he feels like his buddy deserves it. He messed with the wrong people and stole something he shouldn’t have and he got stabbed. So he’s angry and hurt and needs to get revenge, whatever he does, and that’s it for him. After he stabbed the kid who stabbed his buddy, that was it for him. He struck out of revenge and he knows they will come to get him and he won’t even try to escape because he knows he would only flee forever.”
Barât adds of his approach to the track, which, like the rest of the album, was recorded at the Albion Rooms in Margate: “I started writing a riff and it sounded a bit like Swan Lake and everyone was like, ‘Yeah!’ Then we brought in Peter’s theremin player, which took about a day to get in tune, and then he played this sequence and it worked beautifully.”
More about “All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade”
The name of the album is a reference to the address of the band’s hotel and their enduring love for Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel Nothing New on the West (the new German film adaptation of which recently won several Oscars).
Singer Pete Doherty told the Independent that the group found a “moment of rare peace” during recording. He added: “I feel like we’ve completed a kind of cycle as a band, and now we can finally add these songs to the setlist because we’ve got some bangers.” At the same time, the once scandalous musician held out hope for a sequel further recordings.
Guitarist and singer Barât summarized the chaotic past and where the Libertines are now: “Our first record was born out of panic and disbelief that we were even allowed to be in a studio; the second was born of total discord and misery; the third from the will to complexity; “This one now feels like we were all in the same place and time zone and we really connected.”
Tracklist
- 1. Run, run, run
- 2.Mustang
- 3. Have A Friend
- 4. Merry Old England
- 5. Man With The Melody
- 6. Oh S***
- 7. Night Of The Hunter
- 8. Baron’s Claw
- 9. Shiver
- 10. Be Young
- 11. Songs They Never Play On The Radio