Razorlight bemoan 'unfair' album reviews

Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell has claimed that critics have not given the band's latest album fair reviews.

The singer said the mixed response to Slipway Fires is a result of the image the media has created of him.

"I’m not happy with the reviews on the whole because I don’t think people have given the album a chance," he told the Daily Star.

"A couple sounded like they hadn’t even bothered listening to it."

Borrell suggested that some of the negative reviews are the result of a public backlash, saying: “If I go to a gig and see a band I don’t like, at least I can be objective, but it seems people want to believe the crap that’s written about me. But the haters aren’t going to win."

He added: "All I want to do is give the fans a great album. What we’ve recorded is an honest album with no preconceptions. I believe it will resonate in time."

The band released Slipway Fires on November 3.

> Click here to read our review of Slipway Fires