So with The Libertines on permanent hiatus what’s a boy supposed to do?. Well John Hassall has got his proverbial s**t together and Yeti create an R&B racket mined from the same seam as The La’s. It’s almost pre-rock and what a sound: tough but tender, overflowing with off-beats and harmonies; the sort of brutal sound The Beatles must have made at The Cavern, instilled with a zero aggro-factor and quirky self-belief. The Libs’ self-mythologising gland is absent, too. Instead John sings songs like epic jangle ‘Love Is Like A Merry Go Round’ and its giddy, breathless….

So with The Libertines on permanent hiatus what’s a boy supposed to do?. Well John Hassall has got his proverbial s**t together and Yeti create an R&B racket mined from the same seam as The La’s. It’s almost pre-rock and what a sound: tough but tender, overflowing with off-beats and harmonies; the sort of brutal sound The Beatles must have made at The Cavern, instilled with a zero aggro-factor and quirky self-belief. The Libs’ self-mythologising gland is absent, too. Instead John sings songs like epic jangle ‘Love Is Like A Merry Go Round’ and its giddy, breathless….

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