CD review: Razorlight: Slipaway Fires

It's often said that music doesn't divide into genres, that there is only good music and bad. There is one more operational subdivision: big music and its opposite. As a scurvyish guitar band, Razorlight started out making the latter. Their taut, pavement-level debut, Up All Night, jangled and rolled, its dilated pupils gazing up at past stars of the gutter like Lou Reed and Bob Dylan. Then, you could bump into singer Johnny Borrell in some east London dive. He was ambitious but still stitched i...

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