Editors - Indie with 2 platinum albums under their belt.
Editors – Live At Summer Sundae Festival 2005 – Past Daily Soundbooth: Festival Edition
Editors have so far released two platinum studio albums, and six in total, with several million combined sales. Their debut album The Back Room was released in 2005. It contained the hits “Munich” and “Blood” and the following year received a Mercury Prize nomination.
Their follow-up album An End Has a Start went to number 1 in the UK Album Chart in June 2007 and earned the band a Brit Awards nomination for best British Band. It also spawned another Top 10 hit single, “Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors”. The band’s third album, In This Light and on This Evening, was released in October 2009 and went straight to number 1 in the UK Album Chart. The band released their fourth studio album, The Weight of Your Love, in July 2013, followed by self-produced In Dream in October 2015. In 2018, the band released their sixth album Violence.
Alongside their critical acclaim and strong success in the charts, Editors have consistently enjoyed sold-out tours and numerous headlining festival slots. Their brand of dark indie rock is commonly compared to the sound of bands such as Echo & the Bunnymen, Joy Division, Interpol, The Chameleons and U2.
Editors’ debut album, The Back Room, was described as having a wiry and raw sound, which led it to being famously dubbed ‘dark disco’ by the NME. This sound was created by the use of synthesizers, catchy guitar riffs and simple, ambiguous lyrics. An End Has a Start showed progression to a new ‘bigger’ sound. This new sound was created by adding more textured layers to the songs as well as incorporating new forms of music into them. These include the adding of a choir in “Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors” and the inclusion of the sounds of the band playing Hide-and-seek in the song “Spiders”.
Lead singer Smith announced that the band would explore a new direction on their next album, pursuing a new, rawer sound. The new sound materialised itself on the third album through the use of traditional synthesisers instead of the band’s previous use of guitars. The producer of In This Light and on This Evening, Flood also increased the importance of “vibe” in the music’s sound, making it darker than the previous two albums, while also attempting to make the album sound as if it had been recorded live.
Tonight it’s a concert from 2005, promoting their debut album Back Room and it features the band playing the annual Summer Sundae Festival in Leicester to a packed and enthusiastic audience.
Play loud and get ready for a look at what was going on in Coachella this weekend, next week.
