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Editors | Format: Vinyl
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  • Vinyl
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Play It Again Sam
  • ASIN: B000QFAI4W
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,120,471 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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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. -- James Berry

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Magnificent 12 Sep 2007
Format:Audio CD
This is definitely my favourite album for a long time.

Editors have been a bit of a slow burn for me, I didn't know whether to like them or not because they sounded like Joy Division, but eventually decided that wasn't a bad thing.

I found myself rushing out to buy this the day it came out and wasn't disappointed, I keep listening to it and still love it.

It's definitely a bigger sound that the first album, which I like, and there's a lot of emotion in it - some of the songs made me want to cry, but in a good way, and I can't think of any other album I could say that about.
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is an album of two halfs, one sublime, the other not quite so. Their first single Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors falls into the first catogary, a song that signaled the bands progress from the first album into a more polished and adventurous sound that doesn't dissapoint. This song is matched by the likes of The Racing Rats, while Escape The Nest is without a doubt the best song on the album. It builds into a chorus that signals the best of the brooding vocals sound with great guitar and drums to match.

However, for me the slower songs on the album aren't up to the same standard. While equally polished, and far from bad they just feel a bit forgettable. Even with this though this albums a improvment on the first, which shows great intentions to a band that could have an improving future. If you liked their debut then this albums well worth getting.
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
I am addicted! 26 Sep 2007
Format:Audio CD
I can't get enough of this album. I have already memorized all the songs. The guitars are amazing, the drums: a heartbeat. These songs give me the goosebumps. It makes me feel the way U2 once did. They don't remind me in the least to Joy Division or Interpol. I mean, sure, Tom has the same monotone voice that gets compared to those bands. But, Editors are different. I don't find Editors to be as depressing as Joy Division. They invoke powerful emotion in me. I feel so awesome when I hear track 5 "When Anger Shows" in my car. I sing along and it's so brilliant!! I can't wait for album #3. I saw them play live 2 days ago at the Wiltern and I have to say, very few bands can rock harder live than they do on their album. The Editors did just that. They blew me away. My body is still sore from all the dancing and singing and screaming I did. Thank you, UK for the brilliant bands.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
cheap AND satisfying!
unlike Goldheart Assembly's album, that i paid about 6 pounds for and was NOT impressed with, this album is simply amazing. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Gavin
Bought on a whim
I bought this CD on the strength of one track by the Editors that I had heard on a film soundtrack. I must say that I was a bit doubtful the first time I played it but the album... Read more
Published on 5 Mar 2010 by Eralc
fantastically beautiful
The first 4 tracks on the album are just amazing, the band waste no time getting into their rhythm with smokers outside the hospital doors followed by an end has a start with it's... Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2010 by Jack D. C. Squibb
Editors Step Up to the Plate
The UK needs an anthemic, uplifting band with credibilty and this album shows Editors may just be that band. Read more
Published on 15 May 2009 by C. Skinner
Not quite right for me
This is my only Editors album which I bought because of an Amazon Recommendation.
It's close but not quite right for my taste. Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2009 by S. Martin
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... Read more
Published on 21 Sep 2008 by Fools*Gold
Soaring
A soaring album, cinematic in scope, combining pathos and melody with well crafted lyrics, driving bass and thunderous drums. Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2008 by MacDaz
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. Read more
Published on 19 May 2008 by Nugent_Dirt
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... Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2008 by Enoyts
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. Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2008 by juliet R
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