{"id":41364,"date":"2009-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/slipway-fires\/"},"modified":"2009-02-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T00:00:00","slug":"slipway-fires","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/slipway-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipway Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"

Razorlight\u2019s debut album, 2004\u2019s Up All Night<\/i>, made them famous in England, and their follow-up album, the self-titled Razorlight<\/i>, boosted the band into worldwide fame. But now, with their third album, Razorlight has hit rock bottom.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Razorlight\u2019s lead singer Johnny Borrell\u2019s haughtiness was clearly visible a few years ago, but now he thinks he\u2019s the God of pop music, and unfortunately you can hear that on the record.\u00a0 To make matters worse, the whole disc sounded like it was written to just make a lot of money instead of good music.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The first song, \u201cWire To Wire,\u201d is perhaps one of the best songs on the album. This doesn\u2019t make it a good song, though. It\u2019s a pathetic attempt at writing a rock anthem. The first part is alright, but it turns out to be dull and repetitive. After listening to a few more tracks, I started to realize why \u201cWire To Wire\u201d is the album opener — it\u2019s the only song I can actually remember after listening to the entire album. Sometimes I didn\u2019t even notice when a song finished and another one started. It all sounds pretty much the same. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou And The Rest\u201d could have been bearable. The first minute is pretty decent, but it turns out to be very repetitive again. Worst of all, the song doesn\u2019t even have a proper ending. It just fades out at some sort of horrible bridge. And then there\u2019s \u201cTabloid Lover,\u201d which combines all possible clich\u00e9s into a hideous cut that is not worth spending three minutes of your life listening to.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Razorlight never seems to finish their songs. Another unfinished track is \u201c60 Thompson.\u201d Right from the start it suggests a magnificent climax, but when the moment is finally there, the music just stops. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m pretty sure there are a lot of people who\u2019ll absolutely love this album. It has some classic rock influences and it is certainly easy on the ear. It has a few decent songs but as a whole it didn\u2019t impress me at all. Let\u2019s put it this way: if Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Doors, The Beatles and the Rolling Stones had never existed, Razorlight would\u2019ve been damn original. If Razorlight would\u2019ve combined Bob Dylan and The Doors it would at least have been interesting, but they have not. They just did what a thousand other bands did before them. <\/p>\n

I wish I could\u2019ve said something really good about this album but I\u2019m afraid there isn\u2019t anything. Don\u2019t buy it unless you\u2019re a huge Razorlight fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":29757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8347],"rating":[11205],"class_list":["post-41364","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-razorlight","rating-rating-d-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41364"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}