Editors - Back Room
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Artist: EditorsEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-08-09
Music Label: Kitchenware
Soundtracks:
- Lights
- Munich
- Blood
- Fall
- All Sparks
- Camera
- Fingers In The Factories
- Bullets
- Someone Says
- Open Your Arms
- Distance
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Free Music Review: Greatest Debut Of 2005
Hit: 5 Stars
Fresh-faced Brummie act Editors are proving to be Birmingham's most riveting musical export since Black Sabbath. Formed in 2003 and evoking the jagged guitar pulses of the current new wave insurgents without sounding derivative, the winning Editors blueprint is partially down to the distinct vocal style of frontman Tom Smith. Powerhouse The Back Room opener Lights finds Smith's deeply resonant voice intoning `I've got a million things to say' and quickly making his audience prick their ears to hear what's in store. Offering a taste of Interpol's cool sheen but adding statuesque melodies that adds the dramatic nous of Coldplay and U2 at their most epic, Editors appear intent on cutting out the middleman and making a lunge from dingy clubs straight to stadiums. If their live shows match the insistent sounds of Fingers In The Factories and its powerful guitar and drum tracks, as well as the lengthy and sinister trawl through Joy Division territory on Open Your Arms, it's highly possible these young guys will slaughter Coldplay in the capacity-crowd stakes before Chris Martin can even raise a limp textaed fist in retaliation. A debut as conclusively rich in quality as this will be hard to find when 2005 is done and dusted.
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Back Room is the debut album from the Birmingham-based Indie/Rock outfit Editors, that features the successful singles 'Munich', 'Blood' and 'Bullets'. 11total tracks. Kitchenware. 2005.Sure, The Editors are a bit dour, what with songs like "Blood" and "Bullets" and "Fall" sporting baleful themes. And the oft-noted similarity between them and Interpol will be apparent to listeners on the near-instant basis of the bands' singers, who share a bellowy, stentorian voice, which means, really, that both are fond of Joy Division's Ian Curtis. The Editors, in fact, come closer to Joy Division (geographically they're nearly kin, being from Manchester). Deploying an instrumental color palette of their dark early-80s predecessors, The Editors win with chiming guitar work--as on "Someone Says," which shifts rhythms a la Interpol even while sounding wider-ranged and better-lit. Vocally, Tom Smith can wobble the edges with tremors of urgency stoked by Chris Urbanowicz's guitar atmospherics and occasional outbursts. "Fingers in the Factories," a lyrically mirthless little number that interjects a stellar combo of simple beat and bright-toned guitars to charge up the labor-related lyrics, driving Smith to an emotional charge, something that lots of post-Echo and the Bunnymen ensembles have difficulty doing convincingly. The Editors manage energy in the service of drama, a near-necessity in rock. --Andrew Bartlett
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