Editors - An End Has a Start
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Artist: EditorsEdition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown); German (Published)
CD Release Date: 2007-07-17
Music Label: Fader Label
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- EDITORS AN END HAS A START
- Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
- An End Has A Start
- The Weight of The World
- Bones
- When Anger Shows
- The Racing Rats
- Push Your Head Towards The Air
- Escape The Nest
- Spiders
- Well Word Hand
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Free Music Review: No sophomore slump!!
Hit: 5 Stars
"An end has a start" is British rock group Editors' sophomore disc, following up their Mercury prize nominated #2 debut "The back room". At just ten tracks, every track stands out! The album ahs already topped the UK album charts.
The sound isn't drastically different this time around, still gloomy and upbeat in the right places, with loads of piano, jangling and rippling guitar sounds. Lead singer Tom Smith has a rich, sonorous voice, which fits the songs perfectly.
This though is a bit more guitar driven with wider "stadium" sounds a-la Coldplay or U2. Perfect example is opening cut and lead off single, the stadium-esque "Smokers outside the hospital doors".
More upbeat is the title track "An end has a start" with fiercely pulsing guitars. My favourite track though is the lovely midtempo "Weight of the world" with lyrics pondering death, and lines like "Every little piece of your life/Will mean something to someone". Pensive, yet catchy!
"Bones" is a driving dance/rocker with a catchy guitar riff. "When anger shows" reminds me a wee bit of "Wires" by Athlete. "The racing rats" (full of nice jangly and wailing guitars) is a nice dance/rocker with lyrics like "If a plane were to fall from the sky/how big a hole would it leave/In the surface of the earth".
Lowering the tempo, there's the piano driven "Put your head towards the air" (which builds in intensity), "Escape the nest" (brilliant guitars), the simply stunning "Spiders", and closing piano epic, the melancholic "Well worn hand".
Look out for even bigger things from The Editors!!
An End Has a Start Poster
Following the debut release 'The Back Room', the English indie-rock band is back with their 2nd album. Their brand of sweeping indie rock is frequently compared to the sound of bands such as Interpol, Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen, Franz Ferdinand, Kitchens of Distinction, The Chameleons, Big Country and U2. 1st single: Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors. Sony/BMG. 2007.Editors were not the only band suckling on Joy Division's bleak teat in 2005 when they released their debut The Back Room, and they never initially seemed the ones most likely to succeed either. They were like a pencil sketch of gothic depression, too tidy, too clean, too neatly attired to attain any lasting emotional credibility. But there was just one problem with that cursory diagnosis; the incendiary skinny-ribbed barrage of short, sharp, repetitive and achingly insistent singles, titled with an absolute maximum of two syllables as if to ram that point home. There was zero puppy fat on Editors' bones, but what they did carry was toned and worked to perfection. But even considering that discipline, the competent grandeur of its follow up, An End Has a Start, takes you aback. Awash with constellation-scraping omnipresence, opening track "Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors" seems all around you at once, building, lifting and frankly doing a better impression of late '80s U2-sized epic than Coldplay mustered on X&Y. The album rebounds between that sense of rounded, accessible awe and the more industrious pounding in the engine room that they perfected on their debut, the latter particularly demonstrable on the title track and a truly hammering "Escape the Nest". Tom Smith?s rudimentary lyrics and forced baritone may lack some of the poetic depth that the music craves, but like their overall style he directs what he does possess with admirable precision. --James Berry
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