-
8.0
2110
8.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
-
8.0
2112
8.0 |
Clash
A clear career peak for the band.
Read Review
-
8.0
2113
8.0 |
The Guardian
Frontman Tom Smith is clearly still touchy about ""living out second-hand cliches"", but his band are finding their own voice.
Read Review
-
8.0
2115
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Tubeway Army, Joy Division, Talk Talk – it doesn’t really matter. Editors do the 1980s bloody well.
Read Review
-
8.0
2116
8.0 |
The Times
Why they seem so morose remains unclear — at least now they sound that bit more interesting.
Read Review
-
8.0
2119
8.0 |
The Sunday Times
On their own terms, not anyone else’s, Editors have triumphed, aiming high and hitting the mark.
Read Review
-
8.0
6529
8.0 |
The Fly
...press play and – BAM! – an album of wicked, venomous synth-stomps tramples your expectations into the ground
Read Review
-
7.0
7847
7.0 |
Spin
...embrace your inner goth and you'll realize that the band's signifiers... remain intact
Read Review
-
7.0
2120
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Minor criticisms aside, there are many positives to be found here
Read Review
-
6.0
2124
6.0 |
Q
Print edition only
-
6.0
2117
6.0 |
musicOMH
A solid addition to Editors' catalogue and confirms that they can be relied on to produce a collection of listenable songs.
Read Review
-
6.0
2114
6.0 |
The Independent
It's hard not to conclude that they've just made the same shift that Joy Division did when they became New Order.
Read Review
-
6.0
2111
6.0 |
The List
Early indications are promising... Yet the record runs out of urgency as it continues
Read Review
-
6.0
6565
6.0 |
No Ripcord
This third effort is trying too hard to innovate by, once again in Editors fashion, obviously borrowing from somewhere else
Read Review
-
5.0
7268
5.0 |
PopMatters
Doesn’t contain one track that comes close to the power of songs they seemed to toss off so effortlessly before
Read Review
-
5.0
6375
5.0 |
Rave Magazine
... will divide people between those who think their turn is a stroke of genius and others who find it a terribly ill-informed and boring change of direction
Read Review
-
5.0
2121
5.0 |
NME
... suggests that Editors could yet push their trolley out of Ikea existentialism into a ditch of twisted metal, weeds and wires with the potential of finding something beneath
Read Review
-
4.0
2122
4.0 |
Evening Standard
You half expect a miniature Stonehenge to descend from the ceiling.
Read Review
-
4.0
2123
4.0 |
The Quietus
Stripped of the guitar ballast of old, the vocals are simply too prominent. And that leaves the lyrics unadorned, and frankly, it's a coconut shy
Read Review
-
4.0
2125
4.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
-
4.0
2118
4.0 |
Daily Telegraph
Everything is filtered through a stadium-friendly bombast worthy of Simple Minds.
Read Review
-
3.7
7568
3.7 |
Pitchfork
...with Tom Smith out front, it's like an early-80s Depeche Mode where "Master and Servant" is a turgid dirge about oppressive shadow governments and the hopes they squash
Read Review
-
1.5
6461
1.5 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
In This Light And On This Evening is a definite step down for the Birmingham based post-punk band
Read Review
-