Add Date- January 19, 2010 (US edition)
Artist- Editors
Album- In This Light and On This Evening
Label- Fader
Genre- Electronic
Editors’ third album has finally been released in the US and although I was excited to review this cd, it left me underwhelmed. It’s frustrating to see a band with such a great sound phone in such a sloppy and dreary album of cheesy synthesizers and bad Depeche Mode vocals. The world doesn’t need another song comparing love to a “papillon” (that’s butterfly for anyone who doesn’t speak French; this band clearly doesn’t). Without the clever lyrics of Interpol or the postpunk guitar twitchy guitars that carried them to popularity back in 2003, Editors ends up sounding like another terrible 80’s cover band. For anyone who really wants to hear another Joy Division ripoff, go ahead and give this a spin, but I prefer the Horrors’ Primary Colours when I want my dose of somber synth-rock.
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