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Top Amazon Review
Editors were not the only band suckling on Joy Division?s bleak teat in 2005 when they released their debut The Back Room, and they never initially seemed the ones most likely to succeed either. They were like a pencil sketch of gothic depression, too tidy, too clean, too neatly attired to attain any lasting emotional credibility. But there was just one problem with that cursory diagnosis; the incendiary skinny-ribbed barrage of short, sharp, repetitive and achingly insistent singles, titled with an absolute maximum of two syllables as if to ram that point home. There was zero puppy fat on Editors? bones, but what they did carry was toned and worked to perfection. But even considering that discipline, the competent grandeur of its follow up, An End Has a Start, takes you aback. Awash with constellation-scraping omnipresence, opening track "Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors" seems all around you at once, building, lifting and frankly doing a better impression of late 80s U2-sized epic than Coldplay mustered on X&Y. The album rebounds between that sense of rounded, accessible awe and the more industrious pounding in the engine room that they perfected on their debut, the latter particularly demonstrable on the title track and a truly hammering "Escape the Nest". Tom Smith?s rudimentary lyrics and forced baritone may lack some of the poetic depth that the music craves, but like their overall style he directs what he does possess with admirable precision.
Customer Review 1
A grower of an album from a grower of a band. I have the first album and as a lot of people have said the Joy Division sounds are there at the first listen but frankly once you listen to the Editors a bit more it becomes difficult to see any likeness.
This second album is a bit more melodic than the first but im amazed how it has grown on me. Frankly once I really got into it the darkness you hear at first lifts. This album is emotional - not dark or depressing - and I love it for that. Nothing like Joy Division who I am a fan of but can only take in small doses.
If you are open minded (and yes the lyrics are pretty simple) then this album is worth a shot. Give it time.
Customer Review 2
Soaring. A soaring album, cinematic in scope, combining pathos and melody with well crafted lyrics, driving bass and thunderous drums. Yes there is a similarity with Joy Division but there is so much more to this band than that. The progression in song writing from The Back Room to this is considerable. This band are learning and honing their craft...fast. Intelligent and gripping, highly recommended.
Customer Review 3
Send in the Clones. I see less of comparison with Joy Division than with the also-rans of the 80s big overcoat scene such as The Chameleons though without their originality. For a few minutes the debut album offered something to people who might be missing JD, early Bunnymen and The Sound but with the second they merely come across as lightweight carbon copies of.. Interpol. But I guess at least they dont sound like all the rest of the current crop of tousle haired indie clones.
Customer Review 4
Engrossing..... After 2005s the back room the editors only hinted at what they could genuinely achieve, an end has a start is the most wonderfully somber album that i have purchased for a good period of time. The albums melodies set the tone of bleakness while the lyrics - especially in the case of weight of the world which will no doubt be played at a spate of funerals in the future - create a bleak and stood-back-from-society vision which certainly speaks to you on a very persoanl level and ultimately makes you aware of your mortality. A brilliant album that fills the darker moments with wistful dignity.
Customer Review 5
Moving And Timeless. I hesitated in buying this album,mainly because the theme of it is death and loss,and I have experienced a great deal of both in the last ten years or more. However when I heard the title track,I was encouraged, and after hearing Racing Rats late last year,decided to buy this album.I found it profound,honest,very beautiful and spiritual and well worth it.
My favourite track,Weight Of The World is quite spectacularly haunting and
Tom Smith's baritone has never sounded better.
This is an album of tracks you couldn't argue with.Admittedly,for some people,Editors are an acquired taste.However,the quality of these songs and the production on this album cannot be faulted.
A classy superior collection of songs for the Millennium.
