Is it a hit, *hit or miss?
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Razorlight
Up All Night
by Zane Ewton
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Razorlight
Up All Night.
Label: Universal
Records
Hit, *hit or
Miss?: Hit
Rating:  
Razorlight is a band that was formed in
the summer of 2002 and has quickly picked up a buzz in the UK. The
band was able to use footage their manager shot with a video camera to
raise some interest and some money for some studio time.
Demos from the bands few sessions found
their way onto the radio leading to Mercury UK picking up the band and
financing their full-length debut, Up All Night.
Up All Night is a concoction of
re-recorded singles, like Rock and Roll Lies and Rip it Up, some road-tested
favorites and new songs. The album has the advantage of being songs
that are the cream of the Razorlight crop.
A first listen comparison would place Razorlight
firmly in the midst of The Strokes, The Libertines and the tons of other
bands with the rock-revivalist label. While the buzz around this
band is that they will blow their contemporaries out of the water, the
proof is in the pudding.
This pudding tastes pretty good but is
definitely not earth-shaking pudding. The songs that have been with
the band the longest are the strongest and most realized. Rock and
Roll Lies is a good, hand-clapping sing-along. Rip it Up is trashy
fun, but too glossy to be dirty. Stumble and Fall might be the
best song on the album.
Razorlight can be compared to many bands.
They resemble most notably a young U2, which could be a byproduct of the
work that the early U2 producer Steve Lillywhite put into the album.
The rock and roll press, particularly the
British press, wants to champion the next best thing so badly. Up
All Night is a good album, but it is not going to inspire the revolution
that it has been hyped to inspire.
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