7 months. Yep, we're counting.
I can't decide if it's accidentally ironic or very aware and knowing. After a 7 month break, and right as he chooses to connect with the outside world again, Tom posts a video on Instagram with that opening lyric "Out of touch" as an introductory tag line. Not any more, Mr Smith.
Very unexpected but very welcomed, this is the live debut of At All Cost from In Dream, as Tom continues to assemble the acoustic Slow Motion Soundtrack. Is it weird for me to say that it's comforting to see Tom being an Editor, singing Editors songs, when there's been such a chasm of unavoidable public inactivity? It makes the band a tangible thing again, certainly in my mind.
Every Editors album has a track that sits in solitude owing to the distraction and attention garnered by the more obvious songs like the singles etc. They are the compositions that the fans can recite in an instant, but that will never make it onto a Greatest Hits collection in their original state. Not unless it's as part of a Japanese deluxe edition, double pack with a photograph, extra track and a tacky badge as someone once said... Here's my own personal selection, yours will probably differ:-
The Back Room - Distance
An End Has a Start - Well Worn Hand
In This Light and on This Evening - The Boxer
The Weight of Your Love - The Phone Book
In Dream - At All Cost
VI OLENCE - The Pulse
The thing they all have in common is often when they are given life beyond a studio, they have a tendency to become amazing. They also benefit from a lack of performance fatigue on the part of their hosts, in a way that Papillon or Munich wouldn't be able to any more. On the list I gave, two of the songs you see have only ever been played once, and At All Cost is one of them.
The studio take of At All Cost has much more of a redemptive gospel feel to it, and is longer by a full minute featuring more instrumentation. This video is the core exposed and presented in stark black and white light. Unlike the In Dream recording I feel like I can hear a little bit of Asleep by The Smiths in this one, but that might just be me? The most obvious omission here is La Goswell's backing vocals, which is something we've experienced before on Ocean of Night when it's been performed live, so it's not entirely unheard of. But that doesn't mean we don't miss her when she's not around :)
There's something much more filmic about this clip in comparison with everything that came before. Even though it's one shot, just like the others, it still feels professionally filmed. That coupled with the sound, those little echoes on "Don't let it get lost" make this an absolute gem for those in perpetual need of an Editors related dopamine hit. Thanks Tom.
I can't decide if it's accidentally ironic or very aware and knowing. After a 7 month break, and right as he chooses to connect with the outside world again, Tom posts a video on Instagram with that opening lyric "Out of touch" as an introductory tag line. Not any more, Mr Smith.
Very unexpected but very welcomed, this is the live debut of At All Cost from In Dream, as Tom continues to assemble the acoustic Slow Motion Soundtrack. Is it weird for me to say that it's comforting to see Tom being an Editor, singing Editors songs, when there's been such a chasm of unavoidable public inactivity? It makes the band a tangible thing again, certainly in my mind.
Every Editors album has a track that sits in solitude owing to the distraction and attention garnered by the more obvious songs like the singles etc. They are the compositions that the fans can recite in an instant, but that will never make it onto a Greatest Hits collection in their original state. Not unless it's as part of a Japanese deluxe edition, double pack with a photograph, extra track and a tacky badge as someone once said... Here's my own personal selection, yours will probably differ:-
The Back Room - Distance
An End Has a Start - Well Worn Hand
In This Light and on This Evening - The Boxer
The Weight of Your Love - The Phone Book
In Dream - At All Cost
VI OLENCE - The Pulse
The thing they all have in common is often when they are given life beyond a studio, they have a tendency to become amazing. They also benefit from a lack of performance fatigue on the part of their hosts, in a way that Papillon or Munich wouldn't be able to any more. On the list I gave, two of the songs you see have only ever been played once, and At All Cost is one of them.
The studio take of At All Cost has much more of a redemptive gospel feel to it, and is longer by a full minute featuring more instrumentation. This video is the core exposed and presented in stark black and white light. Unlike the In Dream recording I feel like I can hear a little bit of Asleep by The Smiths in this one, but that might just be me? The most obvious omission here is La Goswell's backing vocals, which is something we've experienced before on Ocean of Night when it's been performed live, so it's not entirely unheard of. But that doesn't mean we don't miss her when she's not around :)
There's something much more filmic about this clip in comparison with everything that came before. Even though it's one shot, just like the others, it still feels professionally filmed. That coupled with the sound, those little echoes on "Don't let it get lost" make this an absolute gem for those in perpetual need of an Editors related dopamine hit. Thanks Tom.
Enjoy the music.
Video - stream it here
MP3 - download here
Other Entries on the "Slow Motion Soundtrack" *
*To avoid any confusion, (or a potential lawsuit), please note that Slow Motion Soundtrack is not an official Editors title. Pure artistic license on my part, no royalties have been demanded or exchanged.
brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love :) x
