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March 10, 2004 -- Consistently acclaimed as one of the the best new bands in the UK, London based four section Razorlight, formed in backward 2002, active to Mercury Records in Spring 2003 and by aboriginal 2004 were into the UK top 20s and arena advertise out banderole tours which set new standards for impassioned, transatlantic, acid wire rock'n'roll.
Vagabond artist frontman Johnny Borrell was a walking London fable at 21 afore he stumbled into Swedish bandage mates Bjorn Agren (guitar) and Carl Dalemo (bass) and bisected Peruvian bagman Christian Smith Pancorvo. A year and a bisected after they had razored through a spectrum of comparisons alignment from the Patti Smith Bandage to a adolescent Mick Jagger and anchored their own character as one of the a lot of absolute and anapestic rock'n'n'roll bands of the new century.
Their admission individual 'Rock'n'Roll Lies' was a bead asleep classic. The chase up individual 'Rip It Up' was declared by the NME as "angular guitar pop heaven". Their a lot of contempo UK individual 'Stumble And Fall' cruised into the Top 30 with a Steve Lillywhite production.
The bandage accept afresh been alignment a shotgun marriage of pop universalism and electric wire guitars for their admission anthology - declaring 'I'm a genius' in the NME.
Razorlight columnist quotes:
"The best new bandage in Britain... agreeableness cut with cheesewire" X Ray
"The UK bedrock princes in waiting." NME
"Next year's White Stripes" GQ
"2004's Bedrock messiah's in waiting" The London Times
"We're absolutely digging Razorlight." Rolling Stone
"Widely angled as brood credible to the Strokes throne." British GQ
"Thrilling, asthmatic exhausted balladry with amphetamine added jitter." NME
"The complete of a bandage beginning to get a song out, too absent in its diaphoresis and propulsion to care." The Sunday Times
"Razorlight accept lit the bake cardboard for British rock's action back." The Fly
"Borrell has a allure that suggests he was built-in to do this... 'Defiance' have to be his average name." The Sunday Telegraph
"Looks, songs and brushes with the law... this bandage will go far." X Ray
"An aggression of jagged, befuddled guitar noise." Arena
โ€œIn the months advanced it will be harder to yield your eyes off frontman Johnny Borrellโ€ The Daily Telegraph
"Angular guitar pop heaven." NME
โ€œOne of Britain's a lot of able new bandsโ€ The Evening Standard
โ€œThe best discharge in bedrock back Television's Tom Verlaineโ€ GQ No.23 Best Thing In The World
โ€œThey adjure up all that's acceptable about punk, indie, barn and art rockโ€ The Independent
"The asperous acclaim of The Strokes affiliated to the anti-man acrimony of a boyish Lou Reed." NME
โ€œJohnny Borrell is the newest, androgynous sexprince on the block." NME
"Brilliant" Steve Lamacq, Radio 1
"King of conspicuously British bedrock and rollโ€ NME
โ€œFour adolescent dreamers arch rock's new chargeโ€ Observer Music Monthly
"Razorlight will be the bandage of next year if not this." NME
โ€œThe next big addictive bedrock bandโ€ Sleaze Nation
"They hadn't re-invented rock'n'roll, but they fabricated you feel like you were audition it for the aboriginal time." X Ray
"Thank God for Razorlight!" Dotmusic
