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Album Reviews: Editors — In This Light and On This Evening

23rd Oct 2009

SO the newest ven­ture from Edi­tors goes some­thing like this: clas­sic haunt­ing vocals, famil­iar ref­er­ences to God, typ­i­cal solemn song titles, and, well, bad 80s synth. Edi­tors have taken the rejected synth pat­terns and elec­tro rhythms of the 80s and threaded it through their clas­sic style.

I’ve been a fan since the start, so it’s a shame their third album is a dis­ap­point­ment. Take for exam­ple You Don’t Know Love or The Boxer – they start well, then, just as you’re start­ing to enjoy them, the music becomes erratic and you can’t hit the mute but­ton fast enough.

Despite this, I’m still a sucker for Tom Smith’s deep, some­times melan­choly, vocals and he still brings some­thing to the album that makes it wor­thy of a lis­ten – but that’s sin­gu­lar, not plural.

Despite mul­ti­ple lis­tens I’m still not con­vinced, but maybe those new to Edi­tors will come to a dif­fer­ent con­clu­sion. It’s not easy being so crit­i­cal of such a tal­ented band, but if I’m going to be hon­est, in tak­ing the fans off in a new direc­tion I can’t help but find myself lag­ging behind.