Editors - Blood

Okay, I know I've been sleeping a bit these last couple of weeks on Scenestars. An issue I wrote about on my personal blog has exploded all over the blogosphere and taken a great deal of my time. I don't intend to use Scenestars as a platform to explain it to you, so you are welcome to read about it there. However, now that I have a couple of minutes to take a breather, I had to stop and tell you about this band Editors.

Their debut full-length The Back Room, about to be released in the UK on Kitchenware Records, deserves every ounce of pre-release hype it can be given. The first single, "Munich", was released in April of this year to a series of accolades. The album is no less derivatively empassioned, and demonstrates certainty of purpose by the band's four members.

The tight mixture of 80's-style Echo and the Bunnymen slash Joy Division slash early U2 bravado combines neatly with modern working class indie rock to create a wholly enjoyable, if not downright compelling, documentary of discontent and anthemic monologues. Tom Smith's vocal will be compared relentlessly to Paul Banks of Interpol because of it's strikingly similar baritone, but by comparison the end product of Back Room leaves Interpol's last full-length in the dust. Back Room is replete with ringing, jangly guitar, tight drumming, and a precious disaffection for all that Editors is trying to relate. Enjoy the second single from the album, "Blood", and get hooked up, then head over to the Kitchenware Records shop to buy it. The album, including a bonus CD, is available now for pre-order for only 9.99 GBP (that's $18.08 in USD, but still a great deal IMO).

Editors is exactly the kind of stuff that makes listening to new music and writing about it for you a pleasure for me.

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