This is the sound of Editors preparing themselves for the impending festival run, constructing a set that will be both crowd pleasing and also representative of where they're at right now. You'll get some favourites, but EBM will be on show too. It was recorded in Northampton by my chief co-conspirator in all things covertly-captured, GaryUK. Thanks again for your kindness, we're all better off for it.
The older tracks are still being received with huge amounts of enthusiasm. Witness the singing along to the lead guitar lines of An End Has a Start, or the reverential silence offered to The Boxer. Heart Attack has no intro, and Violence is even more keyboard-based than before. Ocean of Night is back and you won't know how much you missed it until you hear it again. Fabulous. In both the old and new material, you're regularly reminded that there are 6 people making this beautiful noise, purely because of the breadth of the palette their able to utilise.
After listening to the show, I feel like they're in that strange place where as an audience member, you're surprised that some of the material works on these smaller stages. Like you couldn't picture it before it happened, but when it did it made sense. It's mostly true of the songs from The Weight of Your Love onwards. Picturesque, Sugar and Karma Climb, for example, have this heft that I wouldn't have thought would translate in a smaller venue, but they do. Meanwhile other tracks like Racing Rats and, of course Munich, have a feeling of comfortable familiarity. The question is, should that be viewed as a positive or a negative? It's as if there's a constantly shifting in tension between the past and the present, and it's regularly manifesting itself through the music selected for these concerts.
I don't know what to make of the cover of Killer. The first couple of listens have me coming to a peculiar conclusion, which you might agree with or you might not. Indulge me and I'll tell you what it is.
As we know, all albums are the equivalent of a photograph. They give a definitive summary of where the artists are creatively at a given point in their existence. Right now, as they restart the EBM campaign, it would be uncontroversial to say that they are leaning heavily into electronic influences. Machines, and their application are very much the driving force. Which brings me to Killer. If you've listened to the original, you'll be able to hear how clinical and precise it all is. The music jogs along on top of the beat, with Seal gliding over it all with that wonderfully soulful vocal line. This live version has more of a stomping quality thanks to the drum and bass, it reminds me of All the Kings in that way.
Given the personnel involved and the fact that EBM is so embedded in synthetic sounds, the odds that right now they would take such a pure example of digital music as Killer and make it more of a traditional rock song are so very slim, and that's the hilarious part about this; they managed it. Yet just a couple of tracks earlier, they took what was very much a rocking little number called Hallelujah and gave it a new electronic makeover. This behaviour either accidentally ironic or deliberately, knowingly perverse. Editors gonna Edit. Get ready for the summer of gloom, it's going to be a dark one...
Enjoy the music ;)
The older tracks are still being received with huge amounts of enthusiasm. Witness the singing along to the lead guitar lines of An End Has a Start, or the reverential silence offered to The Boxer. Heart Attack has no intro, and Violence is even more keyboard-based than before. Ocean of Night is back and you won't know how much you missed it until you hear it again. Fabulous. In both the old and new material, you're regularly reminded that there are 6 people making this beautiful noise, purely because of the breadth of the palette their able to utilise.
After listening to the show, I feel like they're in that strange place where as an audience member, you're surprised that some of the material works on these smaller stages. Like you couldn't picture it before it happened, but when it did it made sense. It's mostly true of the songs from The Weight of Your Love onwards. Picturesque, Sugar and Karma Climb, for example, have this heft that I wouldn't have thought would translate in a smaller venue, but they do. Meanwhile other tracks like Racing Rats and, of course Munich, have a feeling of comfortable familiarity. The question is, should that be viewed as a positive or a negative? It's as if there's a constantly shifting in tension between the past and the present, and it's regularly manifesting itself through the music selected for these concerts.
I don't know what to make of the cover of Killer. The first couple of listens have me coming to a peculiar conclusion, which you might agree with or you might not. Indulge me and I'll tell you what it is.
As we know, all albums are the equivalent of a photograph. They give a definitive summary of where the artists are creatively at a given point in their existence. Right now, as they restart the EBM campaign, it would be uncontroversial to say that they are leaning heavily into electronic influences. Machines, and their application are very much the driving force. Which brings me to Killer. If you've listened to the original, you'll be able to hear how clinical and precise it all is. The music jogs along on top of the beat, with Seal gliding over it all with that wonderfully soulful vocal line. This live version has more of a stomping quality thanks to the drum and bass, it reminds me of All the Kings in that way.
Given the personnel involved and the fact that EBM is so embedded in synthetic sounds, the odds that right now they would take such a pure example of digital music as Killer and make it more of a traditional rock song are so very slim, and that's the hilarious part about this; they managed it. Yet just a couple of tracks earlier, they took what was very much a rocking little number called Hallelujah and gave it a new electronic makeover. This behaviour either accidentally ironic or deliberately, knowingly perverse. Editors gonna Edit. Get ready for the summer of gloom, it's going to be a dark one...
Enjoy the music ;)
MP3s
Strange Intimacy - download here
An End Has a Start - download here
Heart Attack - download here
Bones - download here
Racing Rats - download here
The Boxer - download here
Strawberry Lemonade - download here
Magazine - download here
Karma Climb - download here
Sugar - download here
Hallelujah (So Low) - download here
Violence - download here
Picturesque - download here
Killer (Adamski cover) - download here
Munich - download here
Ocean of Night - download here
Papillon - download here
All in a Zip - download here
brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love :) x
