Product Description

The follow-up to the million selling 2004 debut 'Up All Night', Johnny Borrell and Co release their self-titled second album. Recorded in London and produced by Chris Thomas (U2, Pulp, Elton John), this effort delivers a more mature, anthemic sound, drawing comparisons with Oasis' 'Definitely Maybe' and consolidating Razorlight's status as one of Britain's top guitar bands. Includes the single 'In The Morning'.

Track Listing

1. In The Morning
2. Who Needs Love?
3. Hold On
4. America
5. Fall To Pieces
6. Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got
7. Pop Song 2006
8. Kirby's House
9. Back To The Start
10. Los Angeles Waltz

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #289 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Customer Reviews

Avoid
I haven't got this album but thats no reason for me not to write a review about it. I heard it once round someones house and I had to throw their cd player out the window half way through it as it was doing my head in so much. A friend of mine said once he managed to listen to the whole album all the way through and it made him so ill he couldn't get out of bed for a week.

Cars? Undertones? or what?
Well, I put this on, and my brain started trying to think who they sound like. This shows that although this is an album of music, it is neither brilliant, nor to my mind original. Oh did I put Johnathan Richman in that list in the title. This disappointed me as I had heard and read good reviews of both the band and the album. But, frankly although it is listenable, I have got it on now, it is not outstanding nor does it scream at you. From about 2004 there seems to have been a trend for "new" bands to try to sound like something that has gone before, and if that was the intention of Razorlight with this album, then they hit the spot. Yes, give it a listen, then you will probably forget it in a wee while.

Razorlight
Rename this lot "Rustybluntdark" - ok that was a poor effort, but you get the picture. No where near as good as they think they are. Over produced cack rock for the masses. Avoid at all costs. If you need to - get the 1st album when Johnny (appropriate name) Borrell didn't have his head up his butt walking around on all fours looking for the light switch....