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EDITORS An End Has a Start (Sony BMG) |
 AH, Editors. The perfect straight line awaits -- can we expect obtuse melodies? Inscrutable lyrics? A grand design that mere mortals are unable to fathom? Well, two out of three ain't bad. On their sophomore release, the Birmingham-based boys seem to have made a conscious decision to sound heavy and serious. Fair enough, especially for a band looking for increased credibility, but when delivered with- out the remotest snatch of wit, the end product seems laboured and weighed down by its desire to be taken seriously. There's no other way to put this: aided by the weary vocals of frontman Tom Smith, Editors sound old. It's not just the jadedness that has become so chic among those looking to ape counterculture circa 2007, it's as if the band has more in common with Chicago than Coldplay. It's a pity, because the band is obviously fairly accomplished from a musical perspective. Their peers would probably be Blue October, another band with an admirably tight sound that loses much of that cohesion mainly due to the fact that its lead singer constantly sounds at odds with what is being created around him. It's not a bad album -- it's just uninspired and unmemorable, severely lacking even a hint of invention. |
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