All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade

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All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade
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Studio album by
the Libertines
Released5 April 2024 (2024-04-05)
RecordedFebruary–March 2023
StudioAlbion Rooms (Margate)
Length38:29
Label EMI
Producer Dimitri Tikovoï
The Libertines chronology
Anthems for Doomed Youth
(2015)		All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade
(2024)
Singles from All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade
  1. "Run Run Run"
    Released: 13 October 2023
  2. "Night of the Hunter"
    Released: 6 December 2023
  3. "Shiver"
    Released: 19 January 2024

All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade is the fourth studio album by English garage rock band the Libertines, released on 5 April 2024 through EMI [1] in the United Kingdom and Casablanca/Republic Records in North America. It is their first studio release in nearly nine years, following Anthems for Doomed Youth (2015).

Contents

Background

On 13 October 2023, the band shared the lead single "Run Run Run" and announced the accompanying album. The song was seen as a "classic yet subtly raucous Libs indie dancefloor anthem". Frontman Carl Barât described it as the "lifelong project of a life on the lash" and drew comparisons to the 1971 novel Post Office . [2]

About the album, Pete Doherty revealed that the band "really came together" and found a "moment of rare peace" creating the project comprising 11 tracks. [3] Doherty and Barât first started working on the record in September 2022 at a studio in Geejam in Port Antonio, Jamaica before reuniting with John Hassall and Gary Powell. [4] All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade was recorded over a four-week period in February and March 2023 at the Albion Rooms in Margate, [5] a location owned by the band members. [6] Produced by Dimitri Tikovoï, the recording process felt like them being all "in the same place, at the same speed" and connected for once, according to Barât. [7] All four band members share songwriting credits on every track. [8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Carl Barât, Pete Doherty, John Hassall and Gary Powell.

All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Run Run Run"2:53
2."Mustangs"3:27
3."I Have a Friend"2:58
4."Merry Old England"4:49
5."Man with the Melody"3:56
6."Oh Shit"3:01
7."Night of the Hunter"4:08
8."Baron's Claw"3:37
9."Shiver"3:00
10."Be Young"2:33
11."Songs They Never Play on the Radio"4:07
Total length:38:29

Charts

Chart performance for All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [9] 4
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [10] 40
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [11] 8
French Albums (SNEP) [12] 21
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [13] 7
Irish Albums (IRMA) [14] 51
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [15] 31
Japanese Hot Albums ( Billboard Japan ) [16] 41
Scottish Albums (OCC) [17] 1
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [18] 8
UK Albums (OCC) [19] 1
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [20] 6

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