Product Description

'An End Has A Start' is the second album from moody, Birmingham-based indie quartet the Editors and follows 2005's critically acclaimed 'The Back Room'. As with their debut, production comes from ex-Compulsion guitarist turned Grammy Awardwinner, Jacknife Lee, while many of the tracks continue to display their love for influential Mancunians, Joy Division.The single, 'Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors' is included.

Track Listing

1. Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
2. An End Has A Start
3. The Weight Of The World
4. Bones
5. When Anger Shows
6. The Racing Rats
7. Push Your Head Towards The Air
8. Escape The Nest
9. Spiders
10. Well Worn Hand

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #197 in Music
• Released on: 2007-06-25
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk
Editors were not the only band suckling on Joy Division’s bleak teat in 2005 when they released their debut The Back Room, and they never initially seemed the ones most likely to succeed either. They were like a pencil sketch of gothic depression, too tidy, too clean, too neatly attired to attain any lasting emotional credibility. But there was just one problem with that cursory diagnosis; the incendiary skinny-ribbed barrage of short, sharp, repetitive and achingly insistent singles, titled with an absolute maximum of two syllables as if to ram that point home. There was zero puppy fat on Editors’ bones, but what they did carry was toned and worked to perfection. But even considering that discipline, the competent grandeur of its follow up, An End Has a Start, takes you aback. Awash with constellation-scraping omnipresence, opening track "Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors" seems all around you at once, building, lifting and frankly doing a better impression of late 80s U2-sized epic than Coldplay mustered on X&Y. The album rebounds between that sense of rounded, accessible awe and the more industrious pounding in the engine room that they perfected on their debut, the latter particularly demonstrable on the title track and a truly hammering "Escape the Nest". Tom Smith’s rudimentary lyrics and forced baritone may lack some of the poetic depth that the music craves, but like their overall style he directs what he does possess with admirable precision. -- James Berry

Customer Reviews

Soaring
A soaring album, cinematic in scope, combining pathos and melody with well crafted lyrics, driving bass and thunderous drums. Yes there is a similarity with Joy Division but there is so much more to this band than that. The progression in song writing from The Back Room to this is considerable. This band are learning and honing their craft...fast. Intelligent and gripping, highly recommended.

Send in the Clones
I see less of comparison with Joy Division than with the also-rans of the 80s big overcoat scene such as The Chameleons though without their originality. For a few minutes the debut album offered something to people who might be missing JD, early Bunnymen and The Sound but with the second they merely come across as lightweight carbon copies of.. Interpol. But I guess at least they dont sound like all the rest of the current crop of tousle haired indie clones.

engrossing....
After 2005s the back room the editors only hinted at what they could genuinely achieve, an end has a start is the most wonderfully somber album that i have purchased for a good period of time. The albums melodies set the tone of bleakness while the lyrics - especially in the case of weight of the world which will no doubt be played at a spate of funerals in the future - create a bleak and stood-back-from-society vision which certainly speaks to you on a very persoanl level and ultimately makes you aware of your mortality. A brilliant album that fills the darker moments with wistful dignity.