Editors - The Weight of Your Love (04/09/2013)
Editors latest release through PIAS Recordings lives up to its name – a heavy and often grandiose collection of post-punk, string-laden ballads.
The Weight Of Your Love begins strong in haunting, almost ominous tones – I can't help but immediately think Twilight and Edward Cullen (their song No Sound But The Wind featured on the soundtrack of New Moon).
The Weight is album opener and lead single, a good example of their simple but effective riff-age and the almost intimidating vocals of Tom Smith. What Is This Thing Called Love is immediately friendlier, more familiar. Smith's falsetto "I've been your Lover for the last time" is a sentiment that will go straight to your core and hold you captive with its emotional pull.
The introduction is all melodrama and stirring strings, then comes the organ refrain that builds in tenacity until it's a wall of soaring sound.
The lyrical content could be accused of veering into twee-ness – "Your bowling ball eyes/ Have nothing to say/ They knock me over again, anyway”. Nonetheless, you can't hold the Editors glum earnestness against them when their ambitious and sweeping sound brings aural delights such as Nothing.
Honesty is an album highlight – anthemic in true Editors form, it sounds as if The National and The Neighbourhood had an orchestral love-child.
The Phone Book is also noteworthy, with an old-time folk vibe, acoustic instrumentation and a melancholy swagger.
No doubt there are fillers on The Weight Of Your Love, but this British outfit have mastered a solid fourth long-playing record.
Rebecca McCann
The Weight Of Your Love begins strong in haunting, almost ominous tones – I can't help but immediately think Twilight and Edward Cullen (their song No Sound But The Wind featured on the soundtrack of New Moon).
The Weight is album opener and lead single, a good example of their simple but effective riff-age and the almost intimidating vocals of Tom Smith. What Is This Thing Called Love is immediately friendlier, more familiar. Smith's falsetto "I've been your Lover for the last time" is a sentiment that will go straight to your core and hold you captive with its emotional pull.
The introduction is all melodrama and stirring strings, then comes the organ refrain that builds in tenacity until it's a wall of soaring sound.
The lyrical content could be accused of veering into twee-ness – "Your bowling ball eyes/ Have nothing to say/ They knock me over again, anyway”. Nonetheless, you can't hold the Editors glum earnestness against them when their ambitious and sweeping sound brings aural delights such as Nothing.
Honesty is an album highlight – anthemic in true Editors form, it sounds as if The National and The Neighbourhood had an orchestral love-child.
The Phone Book is also noteworthy, with an old-time folk vibe, acoustic instrumentation and a melancholy swagger.
No doubt there are fillers on The Weight Of Your Love, but this British outfit have mastered a solid fourth long-playing record.
Rebecca McCann