Editors prep 'sci-fi' album

Tue 28th Jul, 2009 in International News

Birmingham indie-rock kings Editors will be going sci-fi and synthy on their third album, due for a 12 October release. Frontman Tom Smith told the BBC that the new LP In This Light and On This Evening will be a departure from 2007’s An End Has a Start.

Don’t expect a repeat of that album’s dark and dour mood, described in typically verbose fashion by NME as “a record as serious as cancer, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis and foot and mouth, all wrapped up in a terrorist warning note.” Editors recruited super-producer Mark Ellis, aka Flood, to help craft In This Light and On This Evening. Having guided small-fry like U2 and The Killers, Flood led his new charges in unexpected directions.

“Most of it was recorded live even though it’s a lot more electronic,” Smith told BBC, citing Blade Runner and Terminator as inspirations. “It sounds like us trying to tame these machines and hopefully it doesn’t sound clinical and emotionless like a lot of electronic records do. Hopefully it’s warm and breathing…I see both [our previous albums] as a progression from the last. This one isn’t.”