Amazon.co.uk Review
This Special Tour Edition version includes the single "Somewhere Else" as a bonus track. Up All Night might be Razorlight's debut album, but we've heard their like before: from Oasis's Gallagher brothers, whose wilful arrogance is echoed in frontman Johnny Borrell's proclamations of his own songwriting genius, or The Libertines, who share Razorlight's romantic vision of London as a city of boozy rock & roll dreams. And while those two touchstones are probably a pretty good encapsulation of the Razorlight sound--holler-along choruses, presented with a slightly greasy leather-jacket sense of urchin coolthere's certainly more to Razorlight than such a simple equation can spell. Sure, there's nothing especially original about Borrell's tales of hot clubs and pretty girls, but his delivery is passionate in all the right places: see the startling "In The City", which finds him bursting with enthusiasm, words spewing out of his mouth like a teenage Dylan. The title track is the album's highlight, a graceful number about walking the streets through 'til dawn. But the irrepressible "Rip It Up" proves Razorlight can spit out the odd party number, thieving the guitar sound direct from 70s punk pioneers Television's
Marquee Moon and fleshing it out into a rabble-rousing indie-club stomper.
--Louis Pattison
CD Description
Debut album from the London based sleaze-rock quartet. Released under two years into their formation the Anglo-Swedish group rode into fame via the NME launced nu-rock movement along with UK counterparts such as The Libertines and Bloc Party. Comparisons with the New York scene pre and of the band's time are evident with the sounds evoked of The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, The Strokes as well as UK acts such asThe Cure. The album includes the single 'Golden Touch'.