Razorlight

London-formed Anglo-Swedish group Razorlight have achieved notoriety in recent years despite having a #1 single and #1 album. The group came together in 2002, and released their first single Rock 'N' Roll Lies in August 2003; this was followed up by November's Rip It Up, January 2004's Stumble And Fall and June's Golden Touch. Their debut, Up All Night, was released on the 28th, two weeks after Golden Touch, and received mainly positive reviews. Vice in September and a re-issue of Rip It Up in November rounded out the album. Non-album single Somewhere Else followed in April 2005, and hit #2 on the UK Charts (and was then amended to the end of the reissued album, released a week after the single on the 18th). Razorlight then went back into the studio and recorded their follow-up, the self-titled which came out on 17th July 2006, 2 weeks after the lead single In The Morning hit #3 in the charts. The album received a mixed reception, with fans of the four-piece feeling disappointed that they had effectively "sold out" and were now only catering for a mainstream audience. The band's first and so far only #1 single, America, came out in October and hit the top 2 weeks after it was released. The final three singles - December's Before I Fall To Pieces, March 2007's I Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got, and July's Hold On - failed in comparison to the previous two, with none of them hitting the Top 10. The quartet's most recent effort, November 2008's Slipway Fires, performed incredibly poorly in relation to the first two full-lengths; mostly negative media comments and lead single, from September, Wire To Wire not succeeding as well as people had thought led to the album only producing two singles. Vice's video is below, with the downloads.