Artist.......: Editors
Album........: Live at Berlin Festival
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2014-11-30
Str.date.....: 2014-05-00
Quality......: 240kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.editorsofficial.com/
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1. Live at Berlin Festival 57:10
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Formed in 2003, Editors became one of the leading bands in the post-punk revival
that swept America and England in the early 21st century. Originally dubbed
Snowfield, the group comprised four music technology students from Stafford
University -- singer/guitarist Tom Smith, lead guitarist Chris Urbanowicz,
bassist Russell Leetch, and drummer Ed Lay -- all of whom had relocated to
Birmingham after graduation. A series of a well-received club dates and demo
recordings earned Editors some attention from British labels, and the group soon
signed with the revitalized Kitchenware, the venerable indie label once home to
Prefab Sprout.
Kitchenware issued the band's debut single, "Bullets," in early January 2005.
The record reportedly sold out in one day, and its sound earned comparisons to
the dark, dramatic atmospherics of contemporary bands like Interpol and Bloc
Party (not to mention veteran outfits like Joy Division and Echo & the
Bunnymen). Editors' follow-up single, "Munich," made them darlings of the U.K.
music press, and just weeks after their standout performance at the annual
Glastonbury Music Festival, the band issued a third single, "Blood." Their
much-anticipated debut LP, The Back Room, followed in mid-2005. "Munich" was
reissued in January 2006 to ramp up support for the album, which entered the Top
Five in the U.K. and eventually earned platinum sales. A U.S. tour with
stellastarr* coincided with the American release of The Back Room in March, and
a Mercury Music Prize nomination followed in July.
Editors' sophomore effort, An End Has a Start, came out the following summer,
preceded by the Top 10 single "Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors." Like its
predecessor, the album went platinum in the U.K. and maintained the band's
modest audience in America, where they returned in September 2007 to launch
another stateside tour. Editors remained on the road through the middle of 2008,
playing a slew of festivals in the U.K. and opening a string of European shows
for R.E.M. before the year was up. By this point the band had grown tired of
their sound, however, and 2009 found them tinkering with synthesizers and
industrial music. After enlisting the help of producer Flood (known for his work
with Depeche Mode, U2, and Nine Inch Nails), they decamped to the studio to
record In This Light and on This Evening, which unveiled their newfound
electronic fixation upon its release in October 2009.
Eager to build on the success of a second U.K. number one album in a row, Smith
immediately began to write material for a prospective fourth full-length. By the
time the In This Light and on This Evening promotional tour had ended in late
2010, the band had enough new songs to enter a London studio, with Flood once
again behind the desk. The majority of the band weren't satisfied with the
initial results of these sessions, and by early 2012, Smith, Leetch, and Lay had
asked Urbanowicz to leave Editors, when it became clear that the vision they had
for the future of the band was not shared by their guitarist and founding
member. Very shortly after Urbanowicz had departed, they were offered a
high-profile festival slot in Werchter, Belgium in June 2012. They honoured this
commitment, bringing in ex-Yourcodenameis: Milo guitarist Justin Lockey and
Airship member Elliott Williams to their lineup, bolstering the band's sound and
laying the foundations for the straight-ahead rock approach that their fourth
album would ultimately take. Recorded as a five-piece in Nashville with Jacquire
King as producer, The Weight of Your Love was issued in June 2013 and nodded to
the ambitious, guitar-led, stadium-filling sound of U2 and R.E.M.