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An End Has A Start - Editors
  • Band Name: Editors
  • Record Label: Fader
  • Release Date: Jul 17, 2007
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Metascore
65 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 68 Ratings

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  • Summary: The Birmingham, England group tries to escape the sophmore slump and comparisons to other bands with their second album.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 24
  3. Negative: 1 out of 24
  1. Playlouder
    100
    This album is fucking brilliant – it made me want to cut my hair, paint the ceiling, fuck the postman and burn the disco down. So I did. Then I curled up in a corner, cried, and shat myself.
  2. New Musical Express (NME)
    60
    An End Has a Start turns out to be a pupae album--it's Editors stretching their sonic muscles, poking the first spindles of whatever new form they'll take out of their gloom-rock cocoon come album three.
  3. Stylus Magazine
    16
    A record that's so deathly serious that each of it's ten songs could be associated with its very own biblical plague.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 44
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 44
  3. Negative: 6 out of 44
  1. DW.
    10
    This is a great album and flows much better than The Back Room. The band is certainly maturing and writing better songs. An excellent live act as well. Love this new stuff.… Expand
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  2. DecepticonPom
    5
    M'eh!
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  3. nickc
    2
    Bunk. While not as much of a complete rip-off of Interpol and the Smiths as their debut, Editors new release just goes to show what hype does to music: celebrate bands with hit-potential that have absolutely no soul or backbone. This CD will be critically acclaimed in 2007, and be all but forgotten by 2010.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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