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| Razorlight | 
 enlarge | Artist: Razorlight
Label: Umvd Labels
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 45806
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 000721502
UPC: 602517033603
EAN: 0602517033603
ASIN: B000GH2PUU
Release Date: August 22, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | In The Morning | | • | Who Needs Love | | • | Hold On | | • | America | | • | Before I Fall To Pieces | | • | I Cant Stop This Feeling Ive Got | | • | Pop Song 2006 | | • | Kirbys House | | • | Back To The Start | | • | Los Angeles Waltz |
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Amazon.com
Razorlight's eponymous sophomore release doesn't so much reinvent the freewheeling sensibilities of their '04 debut Up All Night as hone them into a more willfully focused pop whole, a mindset that immediately evinces itself on the inviting, Boomtown Rats-meets-INXS-flavored opener "In the Morning." The growing confidence of songwriter/vocalist Johnny Borrell is almost palpable as he expands the band's horizons to include the '50s-rooted influences of "Before I Fall to Pieces" and the Dion-esque "Who Needs Love," the Chrissie Hynde-bred tension of "Hold On" and the sonic fervor of early U2 on "Pop Song 2006." Gratifyingly, that tack has also pushed the rest of the band - especially guitarist Bjorn Agren - towards honing their chops in service of a tighter, yet still playful sound. It may be too easy for seasoned ears to deconstruct the influences here, but by the time this taut, economic collection closes on the high note of the melodramatic "Los Angeles Waltz" even the cynics should be won over. --Jerry McCulley
Album Description
International pressing of their 2006 sophomore album, the follow up to 2004's successful Up All Night album. 10 tracks including the cracking single 'In The Morning' plus 'Kirby's House' (as featured on the album Warchild: Help - A Day In The Life). Universal.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 A Classic October 5, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have never been one to label an album a classic unless I felt every song could stand on its own as a quality song. I've probably listened to this cd about thirty times already and I must say, it is pristine top to bottom. Every song on this cd is amazing! No, it may not be as raw or risky as their first cd Up All Night, but the music is as good if not better. The replay value of this album is unlimited. I highly recommend this cd! This is how rock n' roll is supposed to be.
 They played it safe August 29, 2006
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
Razorlight's previous album was great, with raw guitars and strong songs. With their second album, they played it safe--too safe. Every song sounds like they are trying to become the next U2 (that's not a compliment). Every song is bland, right-down-the-middle, safe, non-threatening, ready for radio play. Very disappointing when you compare this album to their debut.
Three stars because it's listenable, just not memorable.
 Shiny Yet Hollow As Glass December 23, 2006
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Two years ago, when Razorlight's critically acclaimed debut album Up All Night hit music stores across the UK and Europe, the band seemed poised for almost inevitable international success. The album rose to No. 3 on the official UK chart, and the band had the opportunity to play in front of Buckingham Palace, before a TV audience of millions at the Olympic Torch Parade in London, and at the Glastonbury festival. Now nearly six months after their self-titled release, with their relentless self-marketing, they haven't quite stormed across the Atlantic yet.
The album starts off quite nicely with "In the Morning," a rocker that seems cut straight out of 1979, with its crystalline hooks and thundering drums. The sprawling riffs and angsty lyrics of "Los Angeles Waltz," and the hopping bass lines of "Pop Song 2006" will end up ensnaring some listeners. Frontman Johnny Borrell's vocals seem heavily influenced by Bob Dylan -- he often doesn't nail the right key -- but there's enough swagger in his voice to carry the band through in a way that some might like.
The lyrics are frustratingly shallow at times, and at others it just feels like Borrell was just plain lazy--roughly half of the lyrics on "Kirby's House" are repeated from "In the Morning." On "America," Borrell doesn't seem to know exactly what he wants to sing about--nostalgia, insomnia, or the meaninglessness of pop culture:
Yesterday was easy
Happiness came and went
I got the movie script but I don't know what it meant
I light a cigarette because I can't get no sleep
There's nothin' on the TV, nothin' on the radio
That means that much to me
Razorlight never tries to be too original, but they offer a fun album to play "Name That Influence" with as they're easier to spot than that coffee you just spilt on your shirt, whether it's The Talking Heads, Bob Dylan, or The Rolling Stones. There's little here to attract younger fans in the way of offering something even relatively new. However, fans of Jet or The Elms might find this self-titled release of throwback rock at least marginally
Disappointing... November 13, 2006
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this album after hearing America, their single off this album, and listening to the increasing hype about Razorlight and Johnny Borrell being one of the most talented singer-songwriters of his generation. This follow up is a thorough disappointment compared to their first. It's not bad, but it's not that good either. The songs all sound like I've heard them somewhere before, and the lyrics - well, how many times have we heard popstars going on about waiting by the phone, nothing on the radio, and not known what it all meant, while smoking cigarettes late at night. Yawn...
As sharp and shiny as their name implies November 30, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Razorlight pulls off a nifty trick here. Their eponymous CD is heavily and near heavenly saturated by 80's bands. The catchy and confident hooks will remind some of us older skinny-tie geeks of Squeeze, Crowded House and - when the band rocks a little - INXS. But songs like "In The Morning" and "America" are confident pieces of popcraft that sink their hooks in firmly after repeated listening.
Problem is, while it makes for some catchy listening, it is also derivative. "Hold On" sounds so much like a Squeeze song that I was wondering if Difford and Tilbrook had written it. Getting compared to great songwriters is not necessarily a bad thing, but Razorlight The Band doesn't exude much by way of personality here.
The exceptions are "America," which is the best thing on the CD, the nearly folkish "Kirby's House" and the dramatic "Los Angeles Waltz," which closes the album on a very strong note (and namechecks Kings of Leon!). More songs like these would move Razorlight into the realms of great songcraft. But for now, the pleasing popcraft of "Razorlight" follows the likes of Dirty Pretty Things and Muse for strong new British bands.
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