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EDITORS: "IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING"
by George Georgiou (song292@yahoo.gr)




A certain impressive change can be the obvious answer to the conception of the title for the Editors new album. As the title track opens building slowly, an endless mysterious horizon with this strong suspicion of an inner confession jumping from the mirror to the countless roofs of the world, you can clearly distinguish the shape and the echo of the new Editors. As "Bricks and Mortal" follows the sign and fearless synth lines slide on a metronomic beat, you grab the reality that the absence of guitars was not just a matter of an opening track: the electrosynth skeleton of new album's dramas comes only to change the preconceptions about Editors from Interpol and Joy Division to Depeche Mode and New Order... (if i was obliged i would probably say...Tuxedomoon). Famous producer Flood appears to have a serious part of the sound's turn, although the band had declared the mood to move into explorative and experimental electrosynth paths even a few months after the release of "An end has a start". There is an important guide for those who feel insecure in front of this surprise: Tom Smith's faithful performance holds the link between the present and the past and carries their identity feeding their new material with his epic skill. It is rather unfair for a band avoiding so honestly fillers to live always with such kinds of preconceptions especially in our predictable days of repeating echoes. "In this light and on this evening" is an urban synth album with the dark corners of the city feeding the imagination. Sometimes impressions lurk, sometimes emotions fade, but we have always first class mystery and drama in direct and catchy tunes. Change can be elegant, wisely balanced and keep the right room for Curtis' subtle distant cousin...