Felt Better Alive

Felt Better Alive is the fifth solo studio album from the Babyshambles frontman and The Libertines co-frontman Pete Doherty. It was released on 16 May 2025 through Strap Originals.

Reception

Felt Better Alive has received acclaim from critics. At the review aggregator Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Felt Better Alive received a rating of 79 out of 100 based on six critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

• Peter Doherty – vocals (all tracks), guitar (tracks 6–9, 11), art
• Mike Moore – production, mixing (all tracks); guitar (1–6, 9–11), keyboards (3, 4, 10), backing vocals (4, 10), bass (11)
• Mark Neary – engineering (all tracks), bass (1–9), double bass (10)
• Jason Stafford – engineering
• Pascal Bromy – engineering
• Christian Wright – mastering
• Seb Rochford – drums (1, 2, 6–9, 11), piano (1, 6, 7, 9, 11)
• Gloria Gashi – violin (1, 2, 6)
• Justina Zajancauskaité – violin (1, 2, 6)
• Vincent Dormieu – violin (1, 2, 6)
• Frédéric Deville – cello (1, 2, 6)
• Kyle Williams – violin (1, 5, 11), piano (5)
• Matt Hector – drums (3)
• Quentin "Q" Dos Santos – trumpet (3)
• Adam Falkner – drums (4, 5, 10)
• Martin Slattery – clarinet (7), bass clarinet (9), saxophone (10)
• Lisa O'Neill – vocals (8)
• Father Didier – vocals (10)
• Jean Legoupil – pump organ (10)
• Peter Doherty – art
• Thomas Leprêtre – art
• Wayne "Chu" Edwards – design

Charts

References