Line #38 Music/Editors


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The band's current line-up. From left to right: Ed Lay, Justin Lockey, Tom Smith, Russell Leetch, Elliot Williams]]
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4	Editors are an English rock band, formed in 2002 by lead singer Tom Smith. Their line-up currently consists of Smith on vocals, Justin Lockey on lead guitar, Elliott Williams on keyboard and rhythm guitar, Russell Leetch on bass and Edward Lay on drums. Former lead guitarist Chris Urbanowicz left the band after the release of their third album, 2009's ''In This Light and on This Evening'', due to creative differences. Earlier on, their original drummer, [[ThePeteBest Geraint Owen]], left while the band was still known as The Pride. Before their current name, they've also been known as Pilot and Snowfield.
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6	Their main musical influences include Music/JoyDivision, Music/EchoAndTheBunnymen, {{Music/REM}}, {{Music/Elbow}}, Music/TheStrokes and Music/TheWalkmen. They have been most often compared to the American indie rock band {{Music/Interpol}}, due to their similar sound, influences and vocal styles. The sound on their first album, 2005's ''The Back Room'', has best been described as "dark disco" by a reviewer for NME, due to the album's combination of dance-like drum patterns, various synths and catchy guitar licks. They would continue to expand on this sound with their 2007 follow-up, ''An End Has a Start'', creating a "bigger" sound through the method of adding more layers and textures to the songs.
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8	The band would go on to release ''In This Light and On This Evening'' in 2009, in which the band switched out their original post-punk-meets-disco sound for a "new, rawer sound" closer to NewWaveMusic. Four years later, the band released their first album without Chris Urbanowicz, 2013's ''The Weight of Your Love'', where the band would make a slight return to doing post-punk whilst still excluding the disco elements, in addition to Tom Smith singing the tracks in a higher tenor range rather than a baritone one. ''In Dream'' returns to the more electronic-heavy sound of ''In This Light and On This Evening'', but brings more guitars into the mix than that album did.
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10	Two of the band's several albums have gone platinum, with all four accumulating several million in combined sales. Two singles off ''The Back Room'' ("Munich" and "Blood") became major hits and the album itself received a Mercury Prize nomination. ''An End Has a Start'' and ''In This Light and on This Evening'' have both reached #1 on the UK Album charts, with the former earned the band a Brit Awards nomination for Best British Band. In addition to strong chart success, the band has managed to sell out all their tours in the past and have headlined numerous festivals, even touring with Music/{{Muse}} at one point.
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12	Studio albums:
13	* ''The Back Room'' (2005)
14	* ''An End Has a Start'' (2007)
15	* ''[[NewSoundAlbum In This Light and On This Evening]]'' (2009)
16	* ''The Weight of Your Love'' (2013)
17	* ''In Dream'' (2015)
18	* ''Violence'' (2018)
19	** ''The Blanck Mass Sessions'' Companion piece of [[SpeedyTechnoRemake reworked songs]] for Record Store Day
20	* ''EBM'' (2022)
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22	!!Open your arms and welcome tropes into your town:
23	* AlbumTitleDrop: "Camera."
24	-->If we run, they'll look in ''the back room''
25	-->Where we hide all of our feelings
26	** "The Weight."
27	-->I'm a man holding ''the weight of your love''
28	-->But without it my strength just isn't enough
29	* AnimatedMusicVideo: "What is This Thing Called Love?".
30	* AntiLoveSong: "You Don't Know Love".
31	-->You don't know love like you used to
32	-->You don't feel love like you did before
33	* BonusMaterial: The original UK release of ''The Back Room'' contains a six-track bonus disc named ''Cuttings'', consisting of b-sides and a redo of "Forest Fire", a song they wrote when they were still known as The Pride.
34	* BrokenRecord: "YOU DON'T NEED THIS DISEASE YOU DON'T YOU DON'T NEED THIS DISEASE YOU DON'T YOU DON'T NEED THIS DISEASE YOU DON'T YOU DON'T NEED THIS DISEASE YOU DON'T"
35	* CallBack: The lyric "Push a hand up to the sky" from "Push Your Head Towards the Air" draws back to a similar lyric, "I push my hands up to the sky", from "The Racing Rats".
36	* CoverVersion: They included a cover of {{Music/Stereolab}}'s "French Disko" as a [[BonusMaterial bonus track]] on the iTunes release of ''The Back Room''. They have also covered "Orange Crush" by {{Music/REM}} as a b-side to "Blood".
37	* EpicRocking: "Open Your Arms", "Bricks & Mortar", "This House is Full of Noise", "Marching Orders", "Violence", "Belong", "Kiss", "Strawberry Lemonade", "Educate", and "Strange Intimacy" all exceed six minutes.
38	* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Open Your Arms" into "Distance" at the end of ''The Back Room''.
39	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: "Distance".
40	-->I'm sure you're passing the test
41	-->I wish you all the best
42	* LargeHam: What most of Tom Smith's vocal deliveries consists of.
43	* LonelyPianoPiece: "Well Worn Hand".
44	* LyricalDissonance: "Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors", an uplifting-sounding arena-rock tune about running away from everything you know.
45	** Subverted by "Camera", which has pleasant-sounding verses, and then a more aggressive chorus.
46	* MadnessMantra: "Bullets" takes this up to eleven with exactly 36 total repetitions of the lyric "You don't need this disease you don't".
47	** There's also the anxious repeating of "Open your arms and welcome" near the end of "Open Your Arms".
48	* NewSoundAlbum: ''In This Light and on This Evening'' showcased a change from their original post-punk sound to synth-pop, with absolutely no guitar parts being used. ''The Weight of Your Love'' was also this to an extent. There are certainly post-punk elements, though the overall sound is a lot closer to general alternative rock.
49	* NewWaveMusic: Only on ''In This Light''.
50	* NonAppearingTitle: "Munich", "Fall" and "Bullets" from ''The Back Room''; "The Big Exit", "The Boxer", and "Walk the Fleet Road" from ''In This Light''. That album's "Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool" is somewhat of a subversion, as the song does mention eating raw meat and blood drool, though the title as a whole is never quoted word-for-word.
51	* ObsessionSong: "Fall", "Open Your Arms", "An End Has a Start", "Bones".
52	* {{Overcrank}}: The music video for "The Racing Rats" features slow-motion shots of the band members playing in a cul-de-sac.
53	* PostPunk: Up until their sound change in ''In This Light''.
54	* SpiritualSuccessor: Much like {{Music/Interpol}}, they were often considered this to Music/JoyDivision before ''In This Light'', with at least one person hailing Tom Smith as "the new Ian Curtis".
55	** The band Music/TwoDoorCinemaClub could potentially be this to Editors themselves, considering their similar styles.
56	* SubduedSection: "An End Has a Start".
57	* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Distance" is notably quieter than the rest of the songs on ''The Back Room'', using a drum machine instead of actual drums, running at a slower tempo than the rest of the tracks and featuring a softer guitar riff and vocal melody.
58	** ''An End Has a Start'' also ends with a LonelyPianoPiece, "Well Worn Hand".
59	** The instrumentals on "Walk the Fleet Road", the last track on ''In This Light'', are barely even audible until two minutes in.
60	* TitleTrack: The one off ''An End Has a Start'' has become one of their most popular songs.
61	** ''In This Light and on This Evening'' has one as its opener.
62	* WeDoNotKnowEachOther: "The Racing Rats".
63	-->Let's pretend we never met, let's pretend we're on our own
64	-->We live different lives until our cover's blown
65	* WordSaladLyrics: Most prominent on ''The Back Room'', where almost every song's lyrics sound like philosophical phrases lined up together. An excerpt from "All Sparks":
66	-->You're answering questions that have not yet been asked
67	-->All sparks will burn out in the end
68	-->You burn like a bouncing cigarette on the road
69	-->All sparks will burn out in the end

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