Editors - An End Has a Start
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Artist: EditorsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-07-17
Music Label: Fader Label
Soundtracks:
- Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
- An End Has A Start
- The Weight of The World
- Bones
- When Anger Shows
- The Racing Rats
- Push Your Head Towards The Air
- Escape The Nest
- Spiders
- Well Word Hand
Music reviews of An End Has a Start
Music Review: Disappointing- sack the extra guitarist!
Rating: 3 Stars
The so-called lead guitarist is a one-trick pony. On virtually every track here, he sounds like an electrified gondolier, as he plays one treble string or 2-3 treble string chords rapidly at a high pitch. How annoying! The band and/or manager could take some serious clues from Joy Division, to whom they are favorably compared, but the Editors don't yet deserve it. I'd like to see the vocalist/rhythm guitarist take over the lead guitar duties, and sack the current lead guitarist, who's only job seems to be to have a black guitar, and look cool. It is very possible for ONE guitarist to alternate and integrate between chording, riffing, and leads, as Joy Division's did, to great effect. This is more about creativity than technical ability; in fact creativity IS essential, and nobody needs to be a guitar hero anymore, as far as leads go. The result would be a tight little 3-piece band, and a vocalist that can play guitar in harmony with himself, rather than having someone extraneous who plays at cross-purposes. As Joy Division proved, the music can often be more powerful when there is some space in the grooves, and the bass and drums can therefore play roles equal to the guitar and vocals. Editors have more talent in the bass and drum departments than they do in the current lead guitar, anyway. Love that Rickenbacher bass!
Description of An End Has a Start
Following the debut release 'The Back Room', the English indie-rock band is back with their 2nd album. Their brand of sweeping indie rock is frequently compared to the sound of bands such as Interpol, Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen, Franz Ferdinand, Kitchens of Distinction, The Chameleons, Big Country and U2. 1st single: Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors. Sony/BMG. 2007.Editors were not the only band suckling on Joy Division's bleak teat in 2005 when they released their debut The Back Room, and they never initially seemed the ones most likely to succeed either. They were like a pencil sketch of gothic depression, too tidy, too clean, too neatly attired to attain any lasting emotional credibility. But there was just one problem with that cursory diagnosis; the incendiary skinny-ribbed barrage of short, sharp, repetitive and achingly insistent singles, titled with an absolute maximum of two syllables as if to ram that point home. There was zero puppy fat on Editors' bones, but what they did carry was toned and worked to perfection. But even considering that discipline, the competent grandeur of its follow up, An End Has a Start, takes you aback. Awash with constellation-scraping omnipresence, opening track "Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors" seems all around you at once, building, lifting and frankly doing a better impression of late '80s U2-sized epic than Coldplay mustered on X&Y. The album rebounds between that sense of rounded, accessible awe and the more industrious pounding in the engine room that they perfected on their debut, the latter particularly demonstrable on the title track and a truly hammering "Escape the Nest". Tom Smith's rudimentary lyrics and forced baritone may lack some of the poetic depth that the music craves, but like their overall style he directs what he does possess with admirable precision. --James Berry
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