Editors - An End Has A Start
Cut from the same gorgeously dark cloth as their debut, Editors’ second album, ‘An End Has A Start’, is a close-fitting and daring little black number. Produced by Garrett Lee at Grouse Lodge, the sepulchral sounds that so distinguished ‘The Back Room’ are here writ large. Utilising a choir on opening track, ’Smokers In The Hospital’ immediately signals their determination to up the ante. What once was skeletal and sparse is fleshed out. This is Editors with muscle. The titular ‘An End Has A Start’ provides the emotional core of the album, it is also one of the finest songs they’ve written to date. Tom Smith’s mournful vocal combining with helter-skelter guitar and end-of-the-world rhythms to create a monochrome spectacular. The message is simple; don’t fear the reaper. Already an established live favourite, ‘Bones’, is a veritable rocket from the crypt, all lacerating guitar and pummeling percussion. Throughout the contribution of Chris Urbanowicz is immense, just listen to the jerking, puppet-on-a-string guitar of ‘Escape The Nest’. Elsewhere, on ’Push Your Head Towards The Air’ and, the closing, ’Well Worn Hand’, Editors exhibit a simplicity and emotional directness that will surprise fans of their more contrived melancholia. For a prolonged meditation on death, ‘An End Has A Start’ sounds thrillingly alive.
Words_Francis Jones
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DOWNLOAD: ‘An End Has A Start’, ‘Bones’, ‘Escape The Nest’
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