Let's face it - if you haven't heard Deadwood by now, you've either had your head buried in the sand for the last six months or you really, genuinely don't care What Carl Did Next.
This song was, in many ways, Dirty Pretty Things' opening gambit - available on their official website long before the album or first single was released, trawled around live performances in gigs and on TV, they offered it up to us to judge them on. Which is a shame, really, because it's not one of their best. It lacks the energy of Bang Bang You're Dead or You Fucking Love It (which you'll find on the DVD single), or the playfulness of many of the other tracks from Waterloo To Anywhere, such as the brilliant The Gentry Cove or even B.U.R.M.A.
The extras you'll find across its three formats are far more interesting than the lead track - the CD offers new songs Puffin On A Coffin Nail and One To My Left; the vinyl version gives an acoustic cover of The Paddingtons' Panic Attack. In fact, the whole exercise is another frustrating chapter in DPT's irritatingly hit-and-miss career so far. They can be much better than this and that somehow makes it all the more annoying when they aren't. Maybe next time, eh?
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