...and this is why he shouldn't be "retired". Ever since he made the big exit from Editors (see what I did there?), a lot of us have been waiting to hear more music from Mr Urbanowicz. While his former bandmates have continued to hack through the undergrowth of the pop jungles, Chris has kept it all on a low-key tip. We've had so little in the way of a full song that when we do get something, like the all too brief podcast theme he did recently, it just makes it even more frustrating.
Until now.
Chris has just made public a composition he did with Andy Burrows during 2014 in New York City, just 2 years after leaving the band. It's called Married to the Night I believe it to be the first real full length composition with a major input from him. For those of you who didn't know, Andy was the drummer and songwriter in a fair few bands band, including Razorlight and We are Scientists, but is also a close musical companion of one Tom Smith. In the perpetually twilight universe of Editors where we all live it means that he occupies a unique position of having worked both sides of "the estrangement", sort of speak, given his recordings with Tom as Smith and Burrows.
Hearing Married to the Night raises a lot of questions, especially if you're the inquisitive type when it comes to all things Editors/Urbanowicz related. What part of 2014 was it recorded in? Home studio or paid studio? How long was the session that produced it and over what timeframe did it get completed? Was the song written from the ground up by Chris and Andy, or was it a hangover from either of their respective bands which became the finished product when they got together? Written for fun or with the goal in mind of releasing it some time as a duo? And of course...
Hearing Married to the Night raises a lot of questions, especially if you're the inquisitive type when it comes to all things Editors/Urbanowicz related. What part of 2014 was it recorded in? Home studio or paid studio? How long was the session that produced it and over what timeframe did it get completed? Was the song written from the ground up by Chris and Andy, or was it a hangover from either of their respective bands which became the finished product when they got together? Written for fun or with the goal in mind of releasing it some time as a duo? And of course...
...is there more and will we get to hear it?
I believe the odds are slender that two people with more than apparent abilities musically would get together, write a single track and then call it a day. Nope. Not buying it.
More than anything, Married to the Night once again raises the most enduring inquiry that has hung in the air ever since he had to leave Editors; how would their fourth album have sounded if it had achieved completion with Chris as a songwriter? It feels like we've had two albums to see just where the rest of the band were heading but so little with which to compare from Chris, which only increases the intensity of the curiosity surrounding it all. I do hope we get to listen to more music from him, and that his "retirement" refers to his work status rather than his creativity. Enjoy the music ;)
stream it here
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