EDITORS – You Don’t Know Love
Posted by AlMachine on Thursday, February 4, 2010


These are traumatic times for Editors, a band who seem to characterise the words “epic”, “anthem” and “bombast” like Mr Collins or whoever it was that sanctioned the dictionary had created the words for them. Gone are the stadium-sized rockers of yore, and hopefully the ridiculous Interpol and Joy Division comparisons that used to follow them around like a lost border collie. Instead they’ve discovered the synthesiser, and honed a sound that could be heralded as their “New Order phase”, were it not for the fact that current long player ‘In This Light And On This Evening’ actually sounds like their least forced album to date.

Its odd then that ‘You Don’t Know Love’ is perhaps the most obvious Editors-like moment on the entire record, being instantly reminiscent of much of predecessor ‘An End Has A Start’ and its more sentimental pieces. Whether this was plucked off the album purely for the purpose of radio airplay, only the band’s management and label can answer, but as one of ‘In This Light…’’s less memorable or ambitious compositions, it won’t keep the wolf-like detractors from baying for blood at Tom Smith and co.’s door.

On the flipside, the Cagedbaby remix of the title track actually adds a pulse and mild case of Tourettes to ‘You Don’t Know Love’ and its virile stagnancy, making it a far more viable option than the lead track itself. Nevertheless, ‘Bricks And Mortar’ would still have been a far better choice of single…ah, well.

6/10

Dom Gourlay


< Back