Babyshambles

The Blinding EP

[1/5] You can’t even smoke a nice fat bowl of crack in the U.K. anymore without Pete “Sweet Tits” Doherty trying to put his crusty lips on your pipe. But why hasn’t anyone called bullshit on this dude yet? Just because you shoot heroin and write songs doesn’t make you Kurt Cobain. Hell, it doesn’t even make you Courtney Love. Unsurprisingly, the five songs on The Blinding are innocuous at best: The title track/single sounds like a shitty Kinks knockoff; “I Wish” is a by-the-numbers ska clunker; and “Love You But You’re Green” might contain the worst lyrics ever written by an Englishman (“I was a troubled tee-ee-een/Put an advert in a magazine/To the annoyance of my imaginary lover”). Maybe this garbage sounds better when you’re blowing lines off Kate Moss’ ass, but somehow, we doubt it. (CAPITOL) J. Bennett