Returning British indie icons Razorlight have given a revealing new interview in which they claimed leader Johnny Borrell was allowed only one guitar solo per album.
Strangely for a band who don’t exactly resemble Van Halen, Razorlight only allow one guitar solo to appear on each album. In a new interview with XFM Johnny Borrell claimed “I think in my contract it says I’m allowed one solo per album. Razorlight was formed with Bjorn (Agren, bassist), and I was looking for a guitar player with the rule of ‘Absolutely no pentatonics’. I play with them loads, so I get to break the rules once a record.”
The band released new album ‘Slipway Fires’ on Monday (November 3rd) and it has been acclaimed as perhaps the band’s best album to date. Lead single ‘Wire To Wire’ went Top Ten, becoming an instant radio staple in the process.
Borrell said of ‘Slipway Fires’: “I really wanted to shift the spirit of the album, it was a song that we had an idea about for a long time… We wrote a song called ‘Stitch And Bitch’ which is quite similar, but ‘Tabloid Lover’ seemed to come together. We had loads of fun coming up with the rhymes, our favourite being ‘Box to box runner, Page 3 stunner’.”
Razorlight’s ‘Slipway Fires’ is available now.
