Editors - In This Light & on This Evening
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Artist: EditorsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2009-10-27
Music Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
Product features:
- EDITORS IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING
- In This Light And On This Evening
- Bricks And Mortar
- Papillon
- You Don't Know Love
- The Big Exit
- The Boxer
- Like Treasure
- Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool
- Walk The Fleet Road
Music reviews of In This Light & on This Evening
Music Review: Editors Go Synth With Surprisingly Good Results !
Rating: 4 Stars
When I first heard that Editors were putting aside their strings for keyboards, I thought two things. First, I hoped that this was not the destination for them, but rather a progression of the brilliant discography they started 5 years ago. In other words, I didn't want them to see themselves as going from Joy Division to New Order and then stopping there. They are just trying something new. The other thing I thought was, "I hope they don't embarrass themselves."
Well, they don't. They are not trying to be New Order, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, or any other 1980s synth-pop band. This is still an Editors album. And they don't just get through a bunch of songs without their guitars. They manage to pull off some surprises and dramatic musical departures.
The band says they had to do this in order to produce a third studio album on-time (which for them was year-end 2009). So they motivated themselves to do different things. And then they increased their chance of success by hiring Flood to produce the album. Flood's presence really makes itself felt on the fifth track, The Big Exit, which has a 'no-wave' guitar intro straight out of an early 1970s Brian Eno record (Another Green World, actually). Guitars are present from time to time on tracks like the title track, 'Papillon', 'The Boxer', 'Like Treasure', and 'Human' (on the 'Cuttings II' bonus disc), and when they are heard, they have that Flood feel to them (think 1990s U2 or Smashing Pumpkins, only distant or muted).
Listing to the album a few times through now, it occurs to me that 'Like Treasure' is the brightest song on the album, and it comes close to sounding like Coldplay without being obvious. Again, this album is full of moments like that. You know where the influences are from, but the compositions succeed in being original based on the sum of their ingredients. The Editors take bits and pieces of 30 years of UK rock and make it all their own.
This is a solid album for Editors, no less enjoyable or interesting than their previous two. But certainly different. Apparently they want to work with Flood again, so we shouldn't be surprised if their next album in 2011 or 2012 is also synth-dominated.
Overall, this is a slightly darker album for Editors (keep in mind their first two were fairly dark to begin with). It is meant to be a late night London album - a simple but appropriate theme for them. Subtle and direct references to London appear throughout and are both highlighted and bookended by the opening and closing tracks. I think theme-wise, the ordering of the tracks couldn't be more perfect. Editors seemed to have sweated the details because they care about what an album is supposed to be. Dying medium or not, Editors are committed to making good albums.
Perhaps the band had to go this route. They did it not only to prove they are capable of setting a new goal and achieving it - but to prove that they are going to be with us for a while. If they reach a fifth album, and bring back their trademark distorted rhythm guitars, they will have completed a 10-year cycle most other bands fail to achieve.
The Editors always seem tip their hats to greater artists that have come before (mainly the giants of the 80s New Wave). But with each full album, they are becoming great themselves. Let's see where they go next.
Description of In This Light & on This Evening
UK vinyl LP pressing. 2009 album from the British quartet. In This Light & On This Evening represents a significant step forward for the band following the huge successes of debut album The Back Room and the #1 follow up An End Has A Start. There have been many changes to life in Editors since An End Has A Start broke the band worldwide and established the Birmingham based four piece as one of the UK's most prominent bands of recent times. Bassist Russell Leech and guitarist Chris Urbanowicz are now resident in New York whilst singer Tom Smith has become a father. These changes added to the sense that In This Light And On This Evening was the start of a new chapter for Editors and the band came together in London for the recording sessions with producer Flood at the start of 2009 with a determination to push their sound into wholly new territory. Whilst all four members were keen to make a far more electronic record, they were determined to 'give the machines a human feel' in the words of lead singer Tom Smith.Alternative Rock CDs
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