Editors. (There was bound to be a topic about them).

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http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0G0LXD5QV5WTM2J57HOAXVWGG9

"Bullets" :

http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1IZ721JCL22D03AWXRKB17D8N1

"Blood" :

http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=09SHXQ5GGPAM611W0FS6J69KJ2

"All Sparks" :

http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3TJ35L0ZWRC9I06XP8NVQ3VCBS

Apparently not. I always thought it was... what would be the correct word to use?

They're quite good live but I suspect this is mostly to do with the rhythm section, and that they're probably a bit too into attempting Big Anthemic stuff to be really interesting.

They apparently live in the same town as me but I have never knowingly seen them or sold them groceries, which would have allowed me to interrogate them on their influences. "Four fourteh nine, mate -like the CHAMELEONS, do you?"

Haha, my thoughts exactly. Shame the rest of the album is about as interesting as a sock drawer.

I'm liking their new one a lot.

i really dug a few of the non-single tracks on the debut. and the stereolab cover is less interesting than it really could have been, but it's certainly a very different vibe than the original

they're less interpol than the prosaics (RIP) were

Hopefully not too much like Interpol at all.

Interpol are like Franz Ferdinand, only without the good tunes.

Err, no they aren't.

Yes, they are. Influenced by early 80s postpunk, rather bleak, sounding like Martin Hannet produced.

But then Franz Ferdinand have those great melodies and great catchy choruses in addition. Which makes them stick out from the rest of the bunch.

i read yesterday that they were a wishy-washy coldplay-lite band til the day they decided on a total stylistic volte-face to grab a bit of the pot--post-punk thingy. this makes me like them much less. i still think blood and munich and all sparks are great songs but the new stuff's going in way too hard for the stadium indie jugular. v2008 headliners, you watch.

Sounds like they used to be better before then.

Coldplay to Interpol isn't exactly what I'd call a 'stylistic volte-face', either way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c3jK32pOt8&feature=dir

sounds like the national without the things that make the national good. sounds like nick southall's worst nightmare.

where the fuck did this style of song writing come from. quite bit then duh duh duh duh thwacking of instruments then quite bit then more duh duh duh and maybe a hooky anthemic bit at the end. it was yellow wasn't it, or is it u2 or even you made me realize or jeez it's horrible. nasty distorted noise.

Yellow. Yellow is the root of all evil.

I hate Interpol but I really like these guys. Hmm.

did all this happen in england?

Uh dude, then give Interpol another re-listen. Or better yet, just scrap it all and go buy "Unknown Pleasures".

did all this happen in england?

Yeah, basically I saw videos for Edtiors, Kate Nash, Axwell and that remix of "Don't Mess With My Man" and went CD crazy before getting on the plane.

I really, really, really don't want to listen to Interpol again. The album I bought by these guys basically feels like all of the stuff Interpol took from Joy Division mixed in with awesome Floodland bombast.

Aren't Editors like the biggest band in France now, currently?

The album I bought by these guys basically feels like all of the stuff Interpol took from Joy Division

Is this a joke? Are you yanking our chains with this whole "No rly I like EDITORS!!" shit?

So basically everyone hates them, then.

Okay I can see why everyone would hate them based on the slow song, ugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQQ2gTkV-GM

I'm just going to go around to every venue where I talk about music to put the phrase "Ian MacCulloch fronts Mission UK" next to my name in as many places as possible in relation to this song

The singer's tiny little ponytail bun is killing me. Let's let that trend stay buried by the sands of time, plz.

Song's not bad, though. I've always kind of liked this band, at least some of what they've done.

They're another band that gets the "OMG! It's Joy Division" brigade in a lather.

that would make more sense to me if every Joy Division song sounded like "Transmission"

OTM DJP ..

think doran said this exact same thing re all the so called copy bands a few years ago ..

that said, i think doran used 'love will tear us apart' as his example of a blueprint ..

re editors :

album 1 = good, album 2 = never heard, album 3 = electro album, and still not sure it works.

Joy Division divided by Coldplay

I still like the song Bullets, not heard anything else by them that's grabbed me much at all.

This new song is terrible btw, it sounds like it's by some Scottish U2 wannabes from the late 80s.

simple minds, then.

Oi! I was thinking more about shite like Zerra One, but they were Irish of course.

"of course"

Got a vague memory of these guys claiming to be taken aback by the vehemence of the Joy Division comparisons because none of them had ever heard a Joy Division song.

I'm certain that they're lying but I don't know whether that makes me dislike them more or less than if it was actually true and they'd never listened to JD in their lives.

My only real exposure to these guys is An End Has A Start, which I think is a perfectly fine album with a great title track.

I totally get the U2 evocations but due to the music my mind defaults to Wayne Hussey, aka "the goth Bono".

I am really, really surprised that DJP likes that record!

I don't think I've listened to the entire thing in about 5 years but I still stand by "An End Has A Start" as a song.

I find the production on that album appalling, but then it is another Jacknife Lee hyper-compressed sonic abortion... there's autotune all over the vocals, too - not that there's anything wrong with using it sparingly, but you can hear it every time it kicks in and I don't think you're supposed to. Like, I don't think autotune-as-effect is the intention. It's like they couldn't be arsed to comp the vocals properly and opted just to over-tweak them artificially instead.

Also, while I'm sure they intended 'Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors' etc. to be these sweeping, emotional pieces of music, there's something about this record that means it doesn't really resonate in that way for me. I get the same feeling as I do from a Coldplay record, or something.

I do like one or two songs from the debut, though!