Razorlight - Slipway Fires

Johnny Borrell and his trusty band return from watching America to spew rhetoric about issues closer to home.

The album opens up with current single Wire to Wire, an ambitious venture complete wih ghostly backing vocals, and a haunting choir.  'Love me,' croons Borrell, as the song swells and builds showcasing Borrell at his emotionally open, tender and sincere best.
 
Elsewhere Hostage of Love is an amiable slice of catchy indie pop complete with amusing lyrics such as 'you broke those rules, you're my hostage now.'

Borrell's voice is more polished than on previous efforts, but his mission to be bigger than Dylan is still quite a stretch away.  North London Trash is testament to this as Borell waxes lyrical about, 'I've got a hardbody girlfriend and a allet full of cash.'

Tabloid Lover is a good funloving rock'n'pop anthem, whilst elsewhere  the downbeat Go Thompson and Stinger get close to honest affecting brilliance.

A good stoic effort with some great rhythmns and catch little flourishes of Fleetwood Mac but it's admittedly a little hard to take Mr Borrell's emotive vacuous singing seriously at times.