Pictured: Editors, obviously not for Cat Fancy.
Editors is one of those brooding British bands where they dress like they are spies in some Eastern bloc country. They have fast drums, fast guitars, fast bass, and not so fast vocals. They have music that skinny, white kids love to dance to. They probably smoke. A lot.
On their sophomore album, An End Has a Start, Editors recorded with Jacknife Lee. Besides having an uber-typical producer name, Lee is best known for having produced Snow Patrol and the last two Bloc Party albums. His influence is everywhere on the Album. Large, epic buildups and children’s choirs abound. Every lyric sung has the weight of a Live Aid concert attached to it.
The first single off of the album, ”Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors” typifies everything that the album strives for. There are crazy bells and kids singing and a guitar player that loves reverb. There are better songs on the album, but none that strive so high and attain so much. Editors are obviously trying to extend their range, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but in a music industry that survives on parody, it’s good to see someone not willing to settle for their last single in a different key.
That being said, it does sort of sound like Coldplay. Oi vey.
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