Gunga Din

The first new song to be released by The Libertines in a decade, the band debuted the tune during their performance at the Best Kept Secret Music Festival in the Netherlands on June 19, 2015.

Libertines frontman Pete Doherty told NME about the song: "Gunga Gin is a true Libertines amalgamation, in the proper old-fashioned sense of the word. There is a lot in there – there's a Peter Wolf lyric in there, which you'll probably pick out: 'Woke up again, to my chagrin'. We're not really pessimistic on that level, that's pure Peter Wolf pessimism. There's a middle eight borrowed from Billie Holliday: 'I've got those Monday blues, straight through Sunday blues', from the song 'Good Morning Heartache'. There's a nice Doherty and Barat singalong chorus. I think there's a bit of Gary in there as well to be honest."

The video was filmed by photographer and film maker Roger Sargent, who accompanied The Libertines doing their time in Thailand, shooting a documentary about the recording of the album. It was filmed in the city of Pattaya, which is known for its huge number of go-go bars, massage parlors and transgender cabaret shows. "Pattaya was sort of like Mordor on the horizon for us," guitarist Carl Barat explained to NME. "It's one of the world's sex capitals and it's mental. There was an American base there in the Vietnam war, so they started opening brothels. There were Miss Saigon vibes going on."