Just as the Libertines are getting end-of-the-year-list recognition, the British punk band has released a new black and white romance music video for the song "You're My Waterloo" off Anthems For Doomed Youth.
The ragged love ballad is a story of two lovers complimenting and supporting each other through the tumultuous time of life called youth. It's simultaneously heart-warming and heart-breaking at the same time as the two lovers hold each other while overlooking the water below a London bridge, play pranks on one another and steal flowers.
There's a tension to the song underlying the thinly veiled perfection the two project on the surface, which finally breaks into a fight at the end that has the couple lashing out at each other. It doesn't end on a sour note though, as the last shot shows the woman smiling in the embrace of her lover.
The Libertines bring a down-to-earth realness to this love tale that evokes all the wondrous passions of a new love and all of its agonizing hardships as well.
Check out the video below.
The band recently announced a new schedule of European performances starting in 2016 that feature tourmates Sleaford Mods, The View, Reverend and The Makers, The Enemy, Blossoms and The Sherlocks.
On the Facebook announcement of the new music video the band wrote the following statement along the posting of the clip.
"Settle the fire at a full three bars this December. Dearest friends, followers, subscribers and survivors of Albion ... we're very pleased to premiere our brand new video for "You're My Waterloo," directed by Roger Sargent and Carl and featuring Freddie Highmore."
Anthems For Doomed Youth is being praised as one of the best albums of 2015 by publications including Mojo magazine and other UK outlets.
