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Razorlight - Slipway Fires
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| No recent album has trumpeted its grand aspirations louder than Slipway Fires. Razorlight are already multi-platinum sellers, and every stop has been pulled out to emphasise their third album's great importance. The promotional CD can't be played on a computer, implying that if it could, reviewers would be unable to stop themselves heading to the nearest P2P site, gripped by the compulsion to share such an significant artistic statement with the ravening hordes. The video for lead single Wire to Wire is the work of Stephen Frears, who has twice been nominated for the best director Oscar. It's also the album's opening track, which sets out its goal 58 seconds in: "Love me," croons frontman Johnny Borrell, "wherever you are."...full text |
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The tousled locks, the Persil-challenge wardrobe, the ‘A’ List girlfriends -like it or not Johnny Borrell is a bonafide rock star these days, thanks to the radio-friendly jingles which made up 2005’s Razorlight. If the odd clunker remains (“Hostage Of Love” could be a Meatloaf out-take) Slipway Fires largely sees a return to the introspection of debut album Up All Night, Borrell ditching the arena-rock for pin-sharp dissections of the fame game (“Tabloid Lover”), his own meteoric rise (“North London Trash”) and, in “The House”, his own mortality....full text |
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Watch out. Johnny Borrell is back in time to spoil many music lovers' festive season with a new album that threatens to tear up the rule book by forging a 'new direction' for the nation's favourite band, Razorlight (his words, not mine). Borrell, the possessor of the biggest ego in rock since David Crosby, has been sticking in the craw of many for a long time now, not least his put upon bandmates. Drummer Andy Burrows must be feeling particularly hard done by, having penned the band's only number 1 hit (America) and co-written another of their better songs (Before I Fall To Pieces), while appearing to get zero acknowledgement from the music press. Burrows appears to have patched up some of the differences with his lead singer this time around, landing co-writing credits on four tracks from Slipway Fires. Indeed, the album appears to be a more band-orientated exercise than previous efforts, which is no bad thing for those fed up of living on planet Borrell....full text |
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