Editors - EBM

Released 23rd September 2022.

Editors have never been a band who do whats expected. When they emerged in the early 2000s, university friends from Birmingham, they were swept into a wave of indie groups with whom they had little in common beyond playing guitars. Then, after their 2005 Mercury Prize-shortlisted debut The Back Room and 2007 #1 follow-up, An End Has A Start, they switched up their sound for synths. That was their first act of bravery, says frontman Tom Smith, and theyve been taking risks ever since. Were quite used to that feeling of scaring our audience with new material, he says with a smile.

It seems to happen with every album, agrees guitarist Justin Lockey. Well do something that everyone really likes, and then well go and do something else.

That something else is a breathlessly heavy step up, with their seventh album, EBM. Its Editors most leftfield material yet - a thrilling, unrelenting thrust of full-bodied elec