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MUSIC REVIEW
Band: Editors
Album: "The Back Room"
Label: Kitchenware
Crisp, bold vocals combined with varied arrangements and melodies give Editors a confident and edgy style that makes the band stand apart. As it releases its debut album The Back Room on independent label Kitchenware, the band seems poised to make its mark. Editors does not fall into any convenient category which is the way the band likes it.
"We've never been the darlings of (popular British music newspapers/magazines) NME or Q," stated drummer Ed Lay while sitting in the back of the tour bus on a spring stop in Boston. "The press we've gotten has been increasingly good. When we signed to Kitchenware--a very independent label-- we didn't have the money for marketing. We had to go around the UK and tour and make our reputation as a live band to see. That's how we got our break. We did it our own way."
The foursome of Lay, vocalist/guitarist Tom Smith, guitarist Chris Urbanowicz and bassist Russell Leetch met at the University of Stafford. After three years as a band, they know each other pretty well. They also live in a house together.
"We spent all this spare time talking about music anyway and we liked the same stuff and realized we could combine a lot of the same influences like R.E.M. and the Elbows and the vibe of The Strokes at the time," Lay explained. "They had just released This Is It and we were into that.
"We know each other very well. We live with each other and know each other's habits. You kind of trust each other when you've spent so much time together. It's quite democratic the way we write our tunes."
Clear vocals resonate on the opening track "Lights," bravado and a Johnny Marr-esque wah-wah guitar groove propels "Munich," there's an urgency throughout "Bullets" with its grooving bass line and hip-shaking drum beat, things get more romantic on the lilting "Fall" while a catchy hook reels in the listener at the beginning of "All Sparks" while the lyrics provide an earnest message: "be careful angel this life is too long/ all the sparks will burn out in the end."
"There are some positive things but some dark moments on the album, "Lay admitted.
Why the darkness? Editors sounds quite like the Smiths combined with Echo and the Bunnymen.
"We grew up in the gray city of Birmingham," Lay illustrated. "Instead of being in London where you're constantly in the same band scenes and all the industry is down there, Birmingham gave us a chance to reflect on what we were doing instead of what our mates were doing. I think that's very important."
www.editorsofficial.com
By Amy Steele
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