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The Libertines will release their new album 'Anthems For Doomed Youth' on September 4.
The reformed band - comprised of Pete Doherty, Carl Barât, John Hassall and Gary Powell - recorded the hotly anticipated LP with producer Jake Gosling over a six-week period at Karma Sound Studios in Thailand, in April and May and it is now ready to come out.
It is the indie rockers third studio album and their first release for 11 years and the four guys decamped to the Far East to make it so Pete could continue his rehab treatment for drug addiction and stay clean.
Bass player John admits the recording process was very different from past experiences because there was little partying and the guys all missed their kids.
John, 34, said: "The album was challenging, because we've got families and being away from our kids for six weeks was hard."
The album will be preceded by single 'Gunga Din', which comes out on July 3, and the video for the single was shot in 'Walking Street' Pattaya and was directed by Roger Sargent.
To coincide with the album announcement The Libertines - who played an acclaimed secret set at Glastonbury last weekend - have also announced several festival appearances and live dates throughout the summer.
'Anthems For Doomed Youth' is available to pre-order from iTunes, Amazon and the band's official website now.

The Libertines 'Anthems For Doomed Youth' tracklisting:

'Barbarians'
'Gunga Din'
'Fame and Fortune'
'Anthem for Doomed Youth'
'Heart of the Matter'
'Belly of the Beast'
'Iceman'
'You're My Waterloo'
'Fury of Chonburi'
'The Milkman's Horse'
'Glasgow Coma Scale Blues'
'Dead For Love'

Alexa Goddard has premiered a video for her new single 'We Broke The Sky'.
The 26-year-old star co-wrote the single with Kirby Lauryen - who worked on Rihanna's 'FourFiveSeconds', as well as hits for Beyonce and Ariana Grande - and has released an accompanying clip for the summer anthem on YouTube.
The single - which will be released on August 28 - gives a taste of what fans can expect from her debut album, on which she has worked with Stargate (Beyonce, Rihanna, Ne-Yo) and 'Loyal' hitmaker Chris Brown.
The Roc Nation-signed star - who has racked up almost 50 million views on her YouTube channel - has also been working with producers and songwriters such as DJ Mustard (Big Sean, Jeremih) and Ester Dean (Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Mary J Blige).
Meanwhile the blonde beauty - who counts four-time Grammy Award winner Sam Smith among her fans - previously praised the people she worked with on the LP because they helped the collection come together so quickly.
Speaking about making the record in New York, she said: "We ended up leaving having recorded 12 songs in eight days! It was such a nice feeling because even though I didn't write any of them on my own, that wasn't important to me, as long as the songs felt like they came from me, and that I had some sort of involvement that was really important. With videos, as an artist, you always know what sort of things you want, like how you want to look and things like that."

Sir Mick Jagger insists The Rolling Stones have no intention of retiring and are going to keep "working".
This week the band announced 'Exhibitionism' this week, an exhibition displaying memorabilia from the legendary group's 53-year career which will include iconic stage outfits, instruments, tour posters, album artwork, photos, letters and even some rare sound archives and recordings.
Although the four Rolling Stones members - also including Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts - have decided to create this retrospective attraction, Mick is adamant they will continue to play live and work on new projects going forward.
In an interview with The Sun newspaper, the 71-year-old singer said: "Just because we're doing a retrospective doesn't mean it's all over. We're still working, still doing shows and I think we will continue to do so."
Guitarist Keith echoes his bandmate's statement and has assured fans The Stones - who are currently on their North American 'Zip Code Tour' - are "not particularly" interested in retirement.
He said: "How many times have they said that about every tour (that it's our last) since 1975?
"If anybody should be interested in when we're going to quit, it should be the Stones (themselves) and, er, they're not particularly interested in that."
Ronnie added: "This is another insight into an ongoing machine, an institution that will never stop rumbling. Another input into the travelling circus. We didn't have this museum idea with the thought of retirement."
The band also revealed they spent just as much time organising and developing the exhibition as they would planning their concerts and wanted to include as much paraphernalia and as many iconic items - such as Mick's flag cape - as they could.
Mick said: "We've been thinking about it for quite a long time, collecting things, thinking, 'Ah, this would be good,' or, 'We'd better save that.'
"We wanted it to be just right and on a large scale. The process has been like planning our touring productions."
'Exhibitionism' opens at The Saatchi Gallery in London on April 6, 2016 and will run until September 2016.

Kings of Leon have started work on their seventh album.
The rockers have been writing new songs at home for the follow-up to 2013 LP 'Mechanical Bull' and intend to have the tracks finished by the end of this year.
In an interview with SiriusXM radio show Alt Nation, drummer Nathan Followill revealed: "We've been at home writing, trying to get some new stuff going. We kind of had to put it on hold because we have festivals coming up, but we have big enough breaks in between most of them to where I think we're gonna be able to get the album written by the end of the year."
However, frontman Caleb Followill has warned fans not to expect the album to be ready for release by the close of 2015 and has joked it could be the band's difficult record.
He quipped: "Record number seven, most people take, like, what, five years to make that or something?. So we're still in the very early stages of our five-year plan for this next record."
The group have already started contemplating where they're going to lay down the tracks for the LP and at the moment they're trying to decide between their home studio in Nashville, Tennessee, where they made 'Mechanical Bull', or a 174-year-old house located opposite that they recently bought.
Speaking about the old property, Nathan - who is married to singer/songwriter Jessie Baylin - said: "It's a really rad place and I think we can do something cool with it. And you know if we go in there and it sounds like s**t, we can just go across the street."

Paul McCartney doesn't think any modern day bands can have the success that The Beatles had.
The 73-year-old singer has insisted the success of the 'Eleanor Rigby' band - made up of Paul, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison - was down to them writing their own material, and timing, but doesn't see it happening again with any of today's music.
Paul said: "Let's not forget, those four boys were f***ing good. You name me another group who had what The Beatles had. We all played, which is pretty hard. You don't get a lot of that these days.
"We came at the right time. We wrote some pretty good stuff, our own material. We didn't have writers. Could that happen again? I don't know. I wish people well but I have a feeling it couldn't."
Paul went on to talk about his feelings after his former bandmate John was murdered in 1980 by Mark Chapman in New York, and confessed it made the other Beatles feel like they couldn't compete with him, as it made him a "martyr".
Speaking to Esquire magazine, the 'Hey Jude' star said: "When John got shot, aside from the pure horror of it, the lingering thing was, OK, well now John's a martyr. A JFK. So what happened was, I started to get frustrated because people started to say, 'Well, he was The Beatles.'
"And post-Beatles he did more great work, but he also did a lot of not-great work. Now the fact that he's now martyred has elevated him to a James Dean, and beyond."

Nick Jonas has teased he may release a track with Ariana Grande.
The chart-topping musician has revealed the pair wrote several tracks together "a couple of years ago," suggesting they could release a duet at some point in the future.
He admitted: "We wrote a bunch of songs a couple years ago when she first started making her record.
"We wrote together then and had a great time writing.
"Maybe there's a collaboration somewhere down the road."
The 'Jealous' hitmaker is currently shooting comedy horror series 'Scream Queens' with the 22-year-old singer, but insisted they won't be belting out any tracks in the 15-part run of episodes.
He said: "This project is solely acting. None of us are singing."
Meanwhile, Nick confessed he has no plans to get back together with his brothers Joe and Kevin to reform the Jonas Brothers following their split in 2013.
He explained: "I'm happy to be doing my own thing.
"We're all kind of happy to be doing our own thing.
"We chose being a family first and not a band.
"Tough decision but it was the right thing for all of us."
The 22-year-old hunk also spoke about Safehouse Records, which he founded last month alongside former Disney star Demi Lovato and her manager Phil McIntyre.
Speaking about the venture, he told ETOnline: "We felt like it was time for us to set up our own thing and secure that we could create freely and in a safe environment."

Amy Winehouse's unheard demos have been destroyed by Universal Music's CEO.
David Joseph - who is the chairman of the UK record company - claims to have eradicated all of the late singer's unreleased material to stop another posthumous release.
He told Billboard magazine: "It was a moral thing.
"Taking a stem or a vocal is not something that would ever happen on my watch. It now can't happen on anyone else's."
The news comes almost four years after the compilation album 'Lioness: Hidden Treasures' was released in 2011, which featured unreleased songs and demos recorded before her death in July of the same year.
The record label boss has also recently been involved in the documentary film 'Amy' as an executive producer, and explained while promoting the production why he believes the 'Valerie' singer never achieved the same amount of success in the US as she did in the UK.
He explained: "She never spent enough time [in the United States] for people to get a sense of her outside of being drunk and sloppy.
"Some asked, 'Are you making a film about a drug addict?' People didn't even realise she wrote her own lyrics."

The Rolling Stones have announced their first international exhibition.
The major display, named 'EXHIBITIONISM', will open to the public on April 6 2016 at London's Saatchi Gallery and will run until September of the same year, with frontman Sir Mick Jagger saying it is something they have been planning for a while.
He said: "We've been thinking about this for quite a long time but we wanted it to be just right and on a large scale. The process has been like planning our touring concert productions and I think that right now it's an interesting time to do it."
The showcase, which promises to be "the most comprehensive and immersive insight" into the 'Satisfaction' hitmakers, will feature over 500 items from the band's personal archives and will be housed over two floors at the gallery in Chelsea - an area which was key in launching the band.
Guitarist Ronnie Wood said: "The scene was great down the King's Road in the 1960's. That was where you went to hang out to watch the fashions go by. So it is appropriate that our EXHIBITIONISM will be housed at the wonderful Saatchi Gallery."
As well as unseen artefacts, the exhibition will show the band's progression during their career of more than half a century, including unseen video clips, personal diaries, video clips, unique cinematic shows, and collaborations with a host of artists including Andy Warhol, Alexander McQueen and Martin Scorsese.
Tickets for 'EXHIBITIONISM' go on sale to the public next week on Friday July 10 2015 at 9am BST via www.stonesexhibitionism.com and 10am BST from Saatchi Gallery.

U2 are auctioning off a signed guitar for charity.
The 'With or Without You' hitmakers - featuring Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. - have each scrawled their autographs on the instrument, which will be sold to raise money for the UK's leading music therapy charity Nordoff Robbins at the 40th anniversary of the O2 Silver Clef Awards in London on Friday (03.07.15).
As well as the Gibson Les Paul Music Rising guitar - which was played by The Edge during their recent 'iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE' tour - the priceless prize includes a signed vinyl copy of their 1987 album 'The Joshua Tree' and a framed gold disc of the LP, four VIP tickets to one of the band's upcoming shows at London's O2 Arena, and a personal tour of the stage at the show from The Edge.
Bids for the incredible lot start at £15,000 and can be made on Nordoff Robbins' website until 14:00 BST tomorrow (02.07.15), with these being carried into the live auction at the event on Friday (03.07.15).
Also at the prestigious event, acts including Iron Maiden, Kasabian, Duran Duran, Mark Ronson and Rita Ora will receive O2 Silver Clef Awards.
Fans can bid for the lot here: http://www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk/exclusive_U2_auction