Razorlight Announce New Album 'Planet Nowhere' And Autumn UK Tour
Friday, 26 July 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Charles Henri Belleville
Razorlight have released details of a new album.
'Planet Nowhere' will arrive on October 25 and marks the first LP recorded by the band’s classic line-up of singer Johnny Borrell, guitarist Björn Agren, drummer Andy Burrows and bassist Carl Dalemo since 2008's 'Slipway Fires'.
With an aim of moving on from the group's 2018 'Olympus Sleeping' LP, and a 2022 greatest hits collection, Borrell booked a five-day session with veteran producer Youth at his Space Mountain studio in Spain. Ideas took their time to come together, as Borell recounts, though something worth pursuing emerged from out of nowhere. He said:
"I’d been down in the barranca, and came back up to find the studio empty. So I picked up this weird six-string bass/guitar hybrid I'd never seen before and wrote this thing. On our last night, I started playing it with the guys. The drums came in hard, the bass pounded. It sounded like shit. Absolute shit.
"But Youth was there, saying 'Can, Velvets, see where it takes you’ and 'Why don’t you try it like that?' But still the track just wouldn't budge, locked in its own inertia. Youth says, 'You're getting there, just one more' and almost instantly the song came out, from nothing to something, like a statue coming up out of marble."
The track Borell refers to is the newly shared Scared Of Nothing, a tight and snappy indie-rock offering that resparked their motivation to create more songs during a second session with Youth in Spain earlier in 2024.
Alongside the news, the group have scheduled a series of intimate UK shows for October, with stops lined up in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Brighton and Bristol. Tickets go on general sale at 9am next Friday (August 2).
The short tour will precede their previously scheduled one-off show at London's O2 Academy Brixton on November 21, which will see the band celebrating 20 years of 'Up All Night'. They'll also play previously confirmed shows at Wollaton Hall, as part of the new event series Live At The Hall, and Live From The Yard at Zebedees Yard, Hull in August. Tickets for those dates are already on sale.
'Planet Nowhere' tracklist:
1. Zombie Love
2. U Can Call Me
3. Taylor Swift = US Soft Propaganda
4. Dirty Luck
5. Scared of Nothing
6. F.O.B.F.
7. Empire Service
8. Cyclops
9. Cool People
10. April Ends
Razorlight Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Sun August 11 2024 - HULL Zebedees Yard
Fri August 30 2024 - NOTTINGHAM Wollaton Hall Fri October 18 2024 - BIRMINGHAM Castle and Falcon [NEW]
Sat October 19 2024 - EDINBURGH Mash House [NEW]
Sun October 20 2024 - LEEDS Brudenell Social Club [NEW]
Mon October 21 2024 - MANCHESTER Band on the Wall [NEW]
Tue October 22 2024 - BRIGHTON Komedia [NEW]
Thu October 24 2024 - BRISTOL Bristol Strange Brew [NEW]
Thu November 21 2024 - LONDON O2 Academy Brixton
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