Editors

Sweater-clad vocals and post-new wave disco basslines, plus guitars learned from the Fixx, add up to a sophomore album folks who miss the Smiths will want to check out. As the torch-bearers or modern indie rock, Editors are helped in the plight by the John Cale/Bryan Ferry phrasing of primary songwriter and singer Tom Smith, as well as his lyrical proclivity towards meaningful subject matter (class struggle, existentialism). College kids and critics love this band.

Gloom sluts even by Northern English post-punk standards, Editors were the toast of 2005,
at least in certain dimly lit, poorly furnished, disgustingly smoke-clogged garrets around the
world. Sure, they sounded like Joy Division but with a little death disco in the drums, a
little flash in the guitar and a salutary emotional resolve in Tom Smith's voice, as in "Munich"
("It breaks when you don't force it/It breaks when you don't try" – such a simpl... More >