Johnny Borrell may never fulfil his own prophecies, but he's getting closer. This album is home to some genuinely fine songs, "In The Morning", "LA Waltz", and "Who Needs Love" among them. It's a stripped-back, short, sharp, straight-up pop-rock album that doesn't suffer from those limitations, nor allow them to stifle the ambition at the heart of these songs. As such, and because there are no bad songs here, this is a surprisingly impressive offering. It's easy to see why Razorlight was branded a 5-star album by Q magazine, and given a similar rating by the NME. If vaguely shambolic, regional accent guitar-pop is your bag (and both those publications tend to assume that it's all people in the UK listen to), then only Arctic Monkeys offered a finer album in 2006.
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