NME Magazine caught up with Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for the full exclusive story on their long-awaited third album. The band has been in Thailand recently recording the record with The Movement’s Jake Gosling: ‘In Thailand, they have a saying about deeply imporbable events. The say chaat naa dton-baai, meaning it will happen ‘one afternoon, in your next reincarnation’. In England, we’d say ‘when hell freezes over’ or ‘when The Libertines record a new album’. Yet, somehow that most improbable of days has arrived. At the end of 2014, for the first time in over a decade, Pete Doherty and Carl Barat sat down nose to nose and wrote new songs together. Then they recorded them with bassist John Hassall and drummer Gary Powell over a five-week period at Thailand’s Karma Sound Studios. From that studio built on an old snake pit, where recording sessions were punctuated by visits to the notorious vice den of Pattaya„ their third, as-yet-untitled album has finally emerged. It’s the moment anyone who ever dreamed of Albion has been waiting 10 years for — The Libertines included…‘