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I saw the Editors live in Rome in the winter following the release and success of "The Back Room." It was an enjoyable show and I wasn't disappointed. The Birmingham lads knew how to play and left a good impression despite the limited repertoire and the shortness of the show. I must admit that, unlike "The Back Room," I listened to "An End Has A Start" very little and poorly afterward, partly because I was occupied with other things and partly because, on first listen, it seemed like a good product but not much different from the debut album. Essentially, I dismissed it hastily, not without fault. Of the first record, I remember in particular "Camera," the track I liked more than the others.
Now this very strange "In This Light And On This Evening" comes out, preceded by the single "Papillon", a sort of declared homage to "Blue Monday" without any shame, indeed with pride. The Editors have been compared at various times to this or that group. The singer’s voice has earned them an asterisk and a citation of Joy Division. Could be.
The third album of their career is different from the previous ones. It is an album of great tension. In the first track, it feels like "seeing" images of a movie in which something is about to happen. "Papillon", the radio track, is the lowest quality track of the entire album, traversed by gems like "The Boxer", "You Don't Know Love", "Like Treasure" and the concluding, epic "Walk The Fleet Road". The sounds are different: they scratch, tear apart, and shred, and the musical score sometimes emerges distorted and with some bruises. They make the vinyl bleed, because this is an album that should be listened to on vinyl. My judgment, with two listens in the car (the only place where I can listen to it at the volume it deserves), is enthusiastic.
I don't know if they resemble Joy Division that much. In my great passion, which clashes with my persistent ignorance of music science and technique, I can't say if they sound like them, sing like them, or pose like them. However, I like to think that "In This Light And On This Evening" is the album that Joy Division didn’t have time to write. And as it is, it's how Joy Division would have written it thirty years after Ian Curtis’s death.
Tracklist Lyrics and Samples
03 Papillon (05:24)
Make our escape, you're my own Papillon
The world turns too fast
Feel love before it's gone
It kicks like a sleep twitch
My Papillon, feel love when it's shone
It kicks like a sleep twitch
Darling, just don't put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He'd have raised a hand by now
Now darling, you're born, get old, then die here
Well, that's quite enough for me
We'll find our own way home somehow
No sense of doubt or what you could achieve
I've found you out
I've seen the life you wish to leave
But when it kicks like a sleep twitch
You will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe
It kicks like a sleep twitch
Darling, now just don't put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He'd have raised a hand by now
Darling, you're born, get old, then die here
Well, that's quite enough for me, dear
We'll find our own way home somehow, how, how
It kicks like a sleep twitch
It kicks like a sleep twitch
Darling, just don't put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He'd have raised a hand by now
Darling, now you're born, get old, then die here
Well, that's quite enough for me, dear
We'll find our own way home somehow
It kicks like a sleep twitch
It kicks like a sleep twitch
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By Brahms
Despite the significant progress the Editors have made with each album, I am of the opinion that this is still their masterpiece.
They have found inspiration and produced an album as cohesive as few in the genre, revealing themselves as perhaps true authors in the use of electronics.
