CD: 6133042
RELEASED: 2007
LABEL: PIAS

01. Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
02. An End Has A Start
03. The Weight Of The World
04. Bones
05. When Anger Shows
06. The Racing Rats
07. Push Your Head Towards The Air
08. Escape The Nest
09. Spiders
10. Well Worn Hand

An End Has A Start is the second album from Editors. The well-adjusted child of Joy Division and Coldplay, on debut album The Back Room their doom-laded bass hooks and sweeping piano epics, sounding as perfect on the radio as they do in Brixton Academy or the outside expanses of a festival main stage. The Back Room was a breath of fresh air, a reminder of how good the dark, electro-infused days of the very early 1980's were. It was a winning formula and it would be a crying shame to change it. On their new album they open with "Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors", already familiar from ubiquitous radio play, before you even take into account that it sounds like pretty much everything you heard on the first album. By the time you've passed the title track to reach "The Weight Of The World", a superbly haunting musical experience, you can be sure you're in safe and familiar territory. The Racing Rats in particular stands out as an anthem in the making, "Spiders" is a wonderfully creep of a song, and "Bones" is as promising as a live singalong as any "Camera", "Blood", "Bullets" or "Munich". If there's any one single difference between An End... and The Back Room it's that the sound is fuller and slicker here, designed to fill the bigger venues they now command.

Influences / Similar Artists:
Interpol, Longwave, Joy Division, Elefant, Cut City, Confuse The Cat