EDITORS – SMOKERS OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL DOORS (KITCHENWARE RECORDS/SONY)
About five years ago a generation of middle class white boys discovered Joy Division. It is hard not to feel resentful to all these shitty bands that are apparently “carrying the torch” as it all becomes style over substance and the pain these bands profess, holds no real weight just the ongoing licence to allow the listen to pursue a contrived and created depression.
When emo turned into goth, people wept for a reason and that was partly through the new found requirement for sadness to now come with a new uniform and to have to make effort with our make up. While emo was once about pouring emotions out onto paper and into music, now it needs to be dressed up. And The Editors aren’t even fully blown emo!
And indie they most certainly are not either as they co-opt an old found sound. This band is not Interpol, it does not have any discerning roots in anything vaguely credible, instead it just harps on, occasionally tapping into a clever lyric or hook. Here is band that has found its formula and found its crowd, a Mansun for the 21st century. This ain’t good for anybody.
Thesaurus moment: agony.
Editors
Kitchenware
Sony
About five years ago a generation of middle class white boys discovered Joy Division. It is hard not to feel resentful to all these shitty bands that are apparently “carrying the torch” as it all becomes style over substance and the pain these bands profess, holds no real weight just the ongoing licence to allow the listen to pursue a contrived and created depression.
When emo turned into goth, people wept for a reason and that was partly through the new found requirement for sadness to now come with a new uniform and to have to make effort with our make up. While emo was once about pouring emotions out onto paper and into music, now it needs to be dressed up. And The Editors aren’t even fully blown emo!
And indie they most certainly are not either as they co-opt an old found sound. This band is not Interpol, it does not have any discerning roots in anything vaguely credible, instead it just harps on, occasionally tapping into a clever lyric or hook. Here is band that has found its formula and found its crowd, a Mansun for the 21st century. This ain’t good for anybody.
Thesaurus moment: agony.
Editors
Kitchenware
Sony
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