Editors
An End Has A Start
Kitchenware – Fader
With minimal airplay and the strength of their amazing debut album The Back Room, Editors became the Indie Darlings of 2005. They then returned this year with An End has A Start, which rivals The Bends as follow-up albums go, and puts them on the verge of being the next greatest band of the decade. So what exactly am I, and a legions of Editors fans, hearing that most of the music world is missing? An honest and beautiful darkness best displayed in the song "The Weight of the World." Beginning with triumphant drum beats, an echoing guitar riff signals the shadowy vocal by Tom Smith, "Every little of piece of your life will add up to one…will mean something to someone." More than mope rock, Editors have transcended the Joy Division and Interpol comparisons. Editors don't make music for the sake of sadness. I hear the optimism in singer Tom Smith's voice and the anticipation of enormous potential in band members Chris Urbanocwiz, Russell Leetch and Ed Lay's rhythmic brilliance, reaching for greatness with every beat and riff in their musical arsenal. I told an old friend that 2006 would be the year of Editors. I guess I just missed it by 365 days.
Adrian Ernesto Cepeda
12.17.2007
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