RAZORLIGHT MAKES THE PERFECT RECORD?

The Fray are among a cast of musicians set to record a tribute to The Beatles Sgt Peppers album.

Razorlight’s self-titled sophomore effort was released last month, and the band is now in the process of promoting it. The follow-up to Up All Night, was a labor of love for the band, and the first taste from the album is “In The Morning.”

Razorlight’s Johnny Borrell talked about believing in the new album.

“The only way we can make music is to make music that really excites us. I think the very nature of that means that you can’t keep making the same music over and over again. I never wanted to be in a band where the second album is the same as the first, just with a different distortion pedal. You’re always challenging yourself, and you’re always reaching for something. At the end of the day all we care about is writing great songs, so…”

Borrell also compared Razorlight to their debut album Up All Night.

“Oh, certainly. Up All Night really felt to me like a debut record with a lot of energy, but what I really wanted to do with this record is… I felt like if I was going to have three-and-a-half minutes to sing a song I wanted to make sure that I didn’t waste a single word. If I was going to have half-an-hour to make an album I wanted every beat to count. In that sense I think it’s just a lot better attitude. I didn’t want anything self-indulgent — any waste of time and space on the album. I wanted every song to be an immediate piece of art.”

Razorlight is already on to their next single in the U.K., a tune titled “America.” The band’s album went Number One in the U.K. shortly after its release, and they recently toured the U.S. with another Number One U.K. band, Muse.

The band will kick off a brief U.S. tour August 30 to wrap September 17 in Pennsylvania, and then it’s back home to the U.K. for more dates.