Preview of press release: In This Light And On This Evening

[admin]

Here's the press release which is being sent out to Journalists now. The band asked for it to be posted to you guys here first.

Please note, this has been written by Tom.


In This Light And On This Evening

Dear Listener,

We’ve never really been a band than plans things; we’re not really the type of people who plan things full stop. Maybe we’re just drifting through life oblivious to stuff, I dunno, I don't really care, the fact is we cringe at the idea of sitting around talking about how our records are going to sound before we’ve started them. It’s a waste of time, get writing, get rehearsing, get recording and see what happens, the best laid plans will change forty times in the studio anyway. Making a more electronic record wasn't really the point, the point was to do things we hadn’t done before. It was the most natural thing in the world for us to look at moving our sound somewhere new, to write songs on different instruments, to record in different ways, so that in the end hopefully we’d have a record that feels different from what we’ve done before. Don't get me wrong, I see a great leap forward in both sound and song writing between The Back Room and An End Has A Start and I’m very proud of both records but In This Light And On This Evening is very much a new chapter for Editors. In my opinion the great bands evolve over the course of their careers and take risks…this album will alienate some Editors fans, it will split opinion…good.

I started writing towards the end of touring An End Has A Start in the summer of 2008 and as the songs started to come they were sent out one by one via email to the rest of the band. Russ and Chris now live in New York, Ed is in Birmingham and I live in London. But despite the great distances between us this is the way we’ve always worked, even when living in the same house together in Birmingham, everyone attacking the songs individually before getting together in the rehearsal room. Once the time had come to rehearse these songs into shape for recording we had nearly 20, and joining us in the rehearsal room was Flood. Flood was vital to this record; he helped us take that feeling of playing the songs live into the studio. We set up with a full P.A. and recorded the songs as live as we could onto tape. Many of the mistakes and flaws which in previous records we’d have ironed out were left in - if the take had that special something, it was about the groove and the feeling, and it was about us getting that energy we naturally have when playing live on to the tape, even when stood behind synthesizers. It was a liberating approach for us, personally it gave me the confidence to stretch my vocals in ways I haven’t up until now, and I think all four of us felt unafraid to try whatever was in our heads, however foreign or silly the ideas may have first felt. It was fun. We laughed and smiled a lot……we are capable of this do you know!?

But this is still a dark record, a record that sings of no God, a record of broken love songs, a record where the filthy city is so close you can smell it, taste it, a record of drunken violence, a record which has lost all trust in those in charge of our world. We must be four miserable people to make a record like this though right? I must be troubled to write words like these?....No, absolutely not, dark is interesting, dark is exciting, dark can be funny, there’s real life in the dark, real life IS dark, when an album feels like this the fragments of hope and love that do occasionally shine through shine through ten times brighter than they would normally do so. I am so fucking bored of people asking us why we’re so “dark”, or worse questioning our integrity for being this way, this is how we do it, it excites us to express ourselves like this, to be honest we don't even understand what the alternative is and the alternatives we can imagine are too boring for us to even consider.

I hope you enjoy the record. We recorded nearly twenty songs and whittled them down to these 9 for the album, the other songs will come out in various ways over the coming months but these 9 songs we felt to be the best album, a record that flows from start to finish and a record that needs to be listened to as a whole, so I do hope you have the time to do so, maybe even more than once?

Thanks for reading and listening,
Be good,
Tom Smith xx

[craigx]

[WellWornHand]

Excellent! I almost feel I've learned more through reading this then listerning to clips! What a great guy to have this sent to us!
I can imagine tom is peeved by people asking why the record is so dark all the time, or telling him it is, when I listen to them, various people are always saying, it's depressing, wheres the happiness, and I even get sick of it, it doesn't have to be all flowers and joy and walks in the park to be good!
I'm glad he even mentions that other songs will be released in various ways over the following months! Which excites me even more now! This is probably the most excited moment i have felt over the new album! The way he explained and expressed his feelings towards it makes me love it already!

I'm intrigued about how raw the album may be, with mistakes left in, It probably will emphasise the songs even more so then ever!! And I always love to hear them talk of how the songs start out! What I'd give to hear one of those early stages of the songs in an e-mail! lol

anyway, YAY for this! I can hear the clocks counting down already for the new album! Bring it on tom!!
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[tessabanks]

Ahh, reading this is like music to my ears (sorry for the pun). Thanks Editors for remembering and sharing with us first. And thanks admin for posting.

Ok, it's now official. CAN.NOT.WAIT FOR THE NEW ALBUM!!!!!!! This sounds even better than i could have hoped for.


And the crazy thing is that just as i was reading this i had Bullets playing on my stereo and the lyric "Something has to change and it always does" came on. Perfect. I'd like to think it's a sign.

[Despereaux]

Some bits that have me seriously excited:

[Roonzil]

Lovely to read this! Am well excited (as if I wasn't already secretly)..
Absolutely laughed out loud about the remarks about people constantly asking them about the 'darkness' of their songs...
I can fully imagine how fucking annoying those questions have become over the past 4 years... Hopefully every reporter in Britain (and elsewhere) will get this message..
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[gassjack]

[Edit_this]

^^^^For sure, soon as I heard Flood was involved I almost wee'd myself tbh!
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[Marinella]

i clicked the "post reply" button with the aim of writing something after having read that, but now i realize that i'm just too much touched and happy and excited to do that.

tastes are tastes, of course, but special things exist. and i also believe every person is important casue it's unique but there are human beings out there who are a little bit more special than the rest of us, and you can recognize them cause of an inside bright light they have which make them shine, and you can't no see this, you can feel it.
Tom, Chris, Russ, Ed are this kind of special people.

the only thing i can think about right now is how much i'm grateful to have editors in my life and how much real and pure the four of them are, as well as their music and their talent.

so i apologize with you all for this stupid, useless, maybe pathetic, comment.
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[Niko]

So where's the link for the free mp3?

I'm very excited...

[Marieke]

"it will split opinion, good"'
I like that!

[Marinella]

oh and i forgot to write few other things: thank you admin, thank you Tom, thank you everybody, can't wait can't wait can't wait, it's going to be sooooooo huuuuuuuuuuuuuge!, world sooooooooo needs this record.

ok. done.
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[Tilly Mint]

So want to know what 9 songs made the cut, and can't wait for 12th October. I am already staking my life on this being THE album for Editors, and Tom's letter has just confirmed that for me

Oooh, will all those pisspoor journo's who just go for the lazy option like the fact that Editors have fun. I doubt it They're gonna have to work for this review The next few months till the album launch are just going to be hyper exciting
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[AndyD]

LOL, I guess they feared the wrath of FEAK
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