Post by Fuggle on Aug 6, 2006 19:39:46 GMT -5
Editors correct our misconceptions
By Fred Shuster, Music Writer
It can safely be said that the most engaging rock music of the year comes from the U.K. — as usual.
They've always known how to make the good stuff over there.
Along with the Arctic Monkeys, Muse, Keane and Franz Ferdinand, we've fallen for Editors, an aggressive quartet that positively snarls. The smart playing, dark harmonies, throbbing bass and moody atmosphere of their debut album, "The Back Room" (Kitchenware), has made Editors one of the must-see bands of the summer.
"Everyone says our sound is really dark, but the people that truly get what we're doing are the ones who can see that the music's uplifting and positive," guitarist Chris Urbanowicz said, not entirely convincingly. "We write about love, life and death and wrap it in an optimistic vibe — at least that's how we see it."
There's a bit of menace as well. "Blood runs through your veins, that's where our similarity ends," frontman Tom Smith croons in romantically tortured style on the track "Blood," while "You'll speak when you're spoken to" is a memorable line from "Munich."
Ideal background music for the s&m parlor.
Editors, though, probably don't have time for such shenanigans. The Birmingham-based group is a touring machine, zooming off to Japan after their show Tuesday at the Avalon
in Hollywood, followed by a quick jaunt through Europe before finding out on Sept. 5 if they've won Britain's prestigious Mercury Music Prize for album of the year (against Arctic Monkeys, Thom Yorke, Muse, Scritti Politti and others).
"I don't mind them (the other nominees), but I fell completely out of love with guitar bands for a long time after that Britpop thing happened (in the mid-'90s)," said Urbanowicz, 25, an ex-shoe store clerk whose accomplices in Editors are singer-guitarist Smith, bassist Russell Leetch and drummer Ed Lay. "That whole scene seemed to be about what clubs you went to and what drugs you were taking. There was really nothing interesting going on. Then, we heard the Strokes and things began to make sense again."
EDITORS
Where: Avalon, 1735 N. Vine St., Hollywood.
When: 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Tickets: $18. (213) 480-3232; www.ticketmaster.com.
By Fred Shuster, Music Writer
It can safely be said that the most engaging rock music of the year comes from the U.K. — as usual.
They've always known how to make the good stuff over there.
Along with the Arctic Monkeys, Muse, Keane and Franz Ferdinand, we've fallen for Editors, an aggressive quartet that positively snarls. The smart playing, dark harmonies, throbbing bass and moody atmosphere of their debut album, "The Back Room" (Kitchenware), has made Editors one of the must-see bands of the summer.
"Everyone says our sound is really dark, but the people that truly get what we're doing are the ones who can see that the music's uplifting and positive," guitarist Chris Urbanowicz said, not entirely convincingly. "We write about love, life and death and wrap it in an optimistic vibe — at least that's how we see it."
There's a bit of menace as well. "Blood runs through your veins, that's where our similarity ends," frontman Tom Smith croons in romantically tortured style on the track "Blood," while "You'll speak when you're spoken to" is a memorable line from "Munich."
Ideal background music for the s&m parlor.
Editors, though, probably don't have time for such shenanigans. The Birmingham-based group is a touring machine, zooming off to Japan after their show Tuesday at the Avalon
in Hollywood, followed by a quick jaunt through Europe before finding out on Sept. 5 if they've won Britain's prestigious Mercury Music Prize for album of the year (against Arctic Monkeys, Thom Yorke, Muse, Scritti Politti and others).
"I don't mind them (the other nominees), but I fell completely out of love with guitar bands for a long time after that Britpop thing happened (in the mid-'90s)," said Urbanowicz, 25, an ex-shoe store clerk whose accomplices in Editors are singer-guitarist Smith, bassist Russell Leetch and drummer Ed Lay. "That whole scene seemed to be about what clubs you went to and what drugs you were taking. There was really nothing interesting going on. Then, we heard the Strokes and things began to make sense again."
EDITORS
Where: Avalon, 1735 N. Vine St., Hollywood.
When: 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Tickets: $18. (213) 480-3232; www.ticketmaster.com.