Editors
In This Light and On This Evening - FADER Label
FILTER Grade: 81%

Great Britain tends to produce the same type of music over and over: dark indie rock with a hint of post-punk, guided by a singer with a hauntingly low voice belting lovelorn lyrics paired with ascending synth lines. Editors and their third studio album, In This Light and On This Evening, is certainly case in point. It’s hard to talk about the Editors without drawing comparisons to their Great Brit predecessors Joy Division and Echo & the Bunnymen, and on In This Light, these comparisons ring true. Vocalist Tom Smith pulls off an uncanny Ian Curtis impression on synth ballad “The Big Exit” and the more reflective “You Don’t Know Love,” which acts as an anthem to the lonely and jaded (Morrissey, anyone?). Editors finally come into their own in the album with “The Boxer” and “Walk the Fleet Road,” where their sound feels much less processed, predetermined, and iconic British band du jour, and more like themselves—whoever that may be.