Pete Doherty and Frédéric Lo share new song inspired by getting clean

Pete Doherty and Frédéric Lo have released a new song, ‘You Can’t Keep It From Me Forever’, taken from their forthcoming collaborative album ‘The Fantasy Life Of Poetry And Crime’.

‘You Can’t Keep It From Me Forever’, Doherty has said, was written while he was “white-knuckling it with drugs” after getting clean from drugs a couple of years ago.

He told NME in a new interview: “I’ve been clean since December 2019, so at the time of writing this I was really white-knuckling it with the drugs and feeling like it would only be a matter of time before I went back to it.

“It hasn’t turned out to be that way, but there was that kind of kicking out at the new way of being clean and feeling like it was temporary.

French musician, musical director, composer and producer Lo struck up a friendship and creative partnership with Doherty in the summer of 2020 when he asked him to record a cover for a tribute album to his late collaborator, the acclaimed French artist Daniel Darc.

That led to writing ‘The Fantasy Life Of Poetry And Crime’ (out March 18) together over lockdown, going on to record at Cateuil in Étretat in Normandy and Studio Water Music in Paris. The album, produced by Lo, is available to pre-order here.

‘The Fantasy Life Of Poetry And Crime’ track list:

01. ‘The Fantasy Life of Poetry And Crime’
02. ‘The Epidemiologist’
03. ‘The Ballad Of.’
04. ‘You Can’t Keep It From Me Forever’
05. ‘Yes I Wear A Mask’
06. ‘Rock And Roll Alchemy’
07. ‘The Monster’
08. ‘Invictus’
09. ‘The Glassblower’
10. ‘Keeping Me On File’
11. ‘Abe Wassenstein’
12. ‘Far From The Madding Crowd’

Meanwhile, Doherty, who continues to front The Libertines, will head out on the road this year to celebrate 20 years of the band’s iconic debut album ‘Up The Bracket’.

Doherty, Carl Barat and co. will play a run of shows this summer at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl (July 1), Hatfield House in Hertfordshire (July 22) and Bute Park in Cardiff (August 5).