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Slipway Fires | 
| Artist: Razorlight
Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Category: Music
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 55
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 38
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602517858015
EAN: 0602517858015
ASIN: B001G93Z5Q
Release Date: November 3, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| Tracks:
| • | Wire To Wire | | • | Hostage Of Love | | • | You And The Rest | | • | Tabloid Lover | | • | North London Trash | | • | 60 Thompson | | • | Stinger | | • | Burberry Blue Eyes | | • | Blood For Wild Blood | | • | Monster Boots | | • | The House | | • | Weblink |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Most bands ripen and transcend their earlier selves, eventually. But for Razorlight the onset of maturity has been particularly rapid. It’s like they got on the bus with their debut Up All Night, all tight jeans and scrappy attitude, winging a child’s fare and yet by the time they sat down they were in comfy slacks, pulling a financial supplement from their jacket pocket for light reading and asking the kids at the back to pipe down. Their eponymous second record unapologetically disposed of the fervour and sense of place of Up All Night, pursuing instead a universal sense of melody and more generic themes. It is this vein that they build on with Phase 3, aka Slipaway Fires, and having already engaged the mainstream, Johnny Borrell now makes a big play to be prompted alongside some of the greats. With the sentimental piano balladry of “Wire to Wire” and “The House” he positions himself between “Don’t Look Back in Anger” and Elton John. On “You & the Rest” and “60 Thompson” he goes after Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan respectively. The eye-openers are exaggerated cliché “Tabloid Lover” which is like The Who, Queen and Roxette forced into a space too small for them all and “Stinger”, arching soft rock ballad with a perm. It’s an ambitious project in advancing the Razorlight template and sometimes it probably pushes too far, but a glimmer remains throughout and Slipway Fires won’t be the record to halt their ascent. --James Berry
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Pretty bad November 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The album starts off well with 'Wire to Wire' and then goes very rapidly downhill with 'Hostage of Love'; a song about Jesus in the first person. Oh dear. I actually have to skip this track because it's too cringe-worthy to listen to. David Brent could easily have written this.
The rest of the album ambles along, yet tries to be epic. This is the music of a band caught up in it's own arrogance, but who ran out of ideas for the third album.
It's certainly not a good album, but it's not all terrible either. Compared to 'Up All Night' Razorlight are a shadow of their former selves. What happened?
 About as enjoyable as root canal work November 18, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is atrocious. Was really looking forward to this but it's been a struggle to play it right through. It has a really grating, ear shredding sound that I just cannot stand. Gave me a headache after about five songs and just annoyed me. The songs just totally lack any structure and it's so obnoxiously mixed and mastered that the end result is a characterless noise that is unpleasant to the ear. Possibly THE most disappointing release of the year (Keane not far behind).
And here's a message to record labels - STOP HAVING CDs MASTERED AT LUDICROUS LEVELS - DYNAMIC COMPRESSION IS KILLING MUSIC!!
This has got to stop! November 17, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I sometimes regret the passing of the Soviet Union. Everytime I hear Razorlight I think there might be a case to bring back the Gulag!
Oh my, oh my... November 14, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
In keeping with a lot of the reviews here, I have to wonder what the hell has happened to Razorlight. Up all night was simply fantastic - Golden Touch / Stumble and Fall / Rock n Roll Lies justified hit singles and album tracks of the quality of Fall, Fall, Fall and Into The City - it was a fantastic start to a career, I saw them at the Garage in London and it was a truly epic gig - Yet the signs of decay had creeped by the seconds album, In The Morning was a likeable enough romp, but America a little too cringe-worthy - still there are a few good songs hidden on the album like Kirby's House, however, this their third album is plain and truly God-awful.
There is literally no sign of the classic indie-rock album of Up All Night here, instead it's Middle of the Road durge - and I mean that - the lyrics are laughable and the songs just terrible - I'm trying to work out what they are trying to be - I keep hearing stadium band but believe me if these songs were played at Wembley people whould be asleep by track five.
2005 promised so music Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers, Keane, Razorlight, Zutons, Bloc Party but what has happened to them now?
Kaiser Chiefs decline to me mirrors Razorlight's, as does The Zutons.
Keane have given it a good shot at least, the Killers have the luxury of being ultra popular and produced a great seconds album, although Human is terrible - the album hopefully will be better. Thank god for Bloc Party to keep my faith with an excellent third album.
Here's hoping Arcade Fire and Editors come back strong.
Save your money and buy something else, anything else. 2/10.
absolutely desperate November 14, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
this is one of the very worst albums I have ever heard; the lyrics, the lyrics for the love of God!! Ear-bleeding, self-aggrandising rubbish; yet another lousy album from yet another band who had one good album i them at best. Highly unrecommended.
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