Johnny Borrell has said his hopes for a new Razorlight album were thwarted by a strained relationship with his record company whom he says were only interested in another ‘super-mega hit’.
A somewhat piratical new Razorlight line-up was unveiled by Borrell at the start of 201,1 with a new record widely expected to follow soon thereafter. Things quickly went quiet however, and after a long silence the frontman announced the band’s hiatus and his own debut solo album earlier this year.
“We really felt we had a record that we wanted to put out, but my label was very fractured and it was very hard to communicate with them,” Borrell has told NME. “The label was focused on having a super-mega hit, and unless I played them a ‘Golden Touch’ or ‘America’ they wouldn’t let me make a record. All I was trying to do was make a good record.”
“There’ll definitely be a point where it’s going to feel exciting to do a Razorlight record,” Borrell continues on the group’s future. “When? I dunno, somewhere in the future.”
Borrell’s maiden solo effort ‘Borrell 1‘ was released earlier this month.