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Up All Night (Razorlight)

Up All Night
Razorlight - Up All Night.jpeg
Studio album by Razorlight
Released 28 June 2004
Recorded Sphere Studios, London, England
Genre Indie rock, post-punk revival
Length 45:49
Label Mercury, Vertigo Records
Producer John Cornfield, Steve Lillywhite, Johnny Borrell
Razorlight chronology
Up All Night
(2004)
Razorlight
(2006)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 65/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3.5/5 stars
BBC (positive)
Drowned in Sound (8/10)
Entertainment Weekly (positive)
The Guardian 3/5 stars
NME (8/10)
Pitchfork Media (3.7/10)
PopMatters (5/10)
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars
Stylus Magazine (C)

Up All Night is the debut album by English indie rock band Razorlight, released on 28 June 2004. The album was mainly recorded at Sawmills Studio and mixed at Sphere Studios by John Cornfield.

The album garnered favourable reviews but critics questioned the band's influence-filled musicianship throughout the tracks. Up All Night peaked at number 3 on the UK Albums Chart and spawned six singles: "Rock 'N' Roll Lies", "Rip It Up", "Stumble and Fall", "Golden Touch", "Vice" and "Somewhere Else".

On 4 June 2014, the band, with only lead singer Johnny Borrell remaining from the line-up which recorded the album, played at the Electric Ballroom in Camden to mark Up All Night's 10th anniversary.

Up All Night received positive reviews but music critics were divided by the overall musicianship resembling that of bands both classic and recent. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 65 based on 16 reviews.

Tim Jonze of NME gave the album high praise for Johnny Borrell's sharp street poetry and the band's instrumentation for giving Borrell the right amount of strength and control to sing them, saying that "For all its flaws, Up All Night bristles with passion, energy and, most importantly, amazing songs." Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone praised Borrell for backing up his bravado with tracks that exude tight lyrics and optimism, saying that "Up All Night is a brilliant mod explosion of scruffy pub punk, in the mode of his old friends the Libertines." Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian said the album's various influence-filled tracks get by on Borrell being able to deliver them with gusto and conviction, concluding that "Originality may not be Razorlight's strong point, but Borrell's raw charisma carries the day." Richard Banks of BBC praised the band's commitment to delivering upbeat three-chord punk tracks while still being to able to make it wholly original, concluding that "With a debut this good, Razorlight are a band that deserve to do very, very well."


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