The Back Room - Editors
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  • Summary: The Birmingham, England post-punk quartet is the latest band to have the UK music press in a tizzy, with this debut LP drawing the usual comparisons to Joy Division and Echo & The Bunnymen. (Actually, they just sound like Interpol.)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 23
  2. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. The Back Room is a fine album that proves you can look backward while paving the way forward.
  2. Alternative rock hasn't seen anything like this since the release of Turn on the Bright Lights. The catch: not only is The Back Room better, it holds promise for even better things in the future.
  3. Editors sound like an earnest rock band who grew up loving the same bands as the current batch of revivalists, but beyond the workmanlike interpretations of their heroes, it's hard to swallow.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 52 out of 60
  2. Negative: 3 out of 60
  1. DJ
    10
    Truly beautiful record by this band. They dp everything right and the end product is truly mesmerizing and uplifting. One of the best albums in the last 10 years, which is saying alot. Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. daz
    5
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    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. MisterThomYorke
    2
    How Antics should have turned out? Antics was fantastic. Back Room is not so much. These are just copies of copiers and not even half as talented. I'm not sure what that equals mathmatically but I'm saying its probably 2. If you loved this you probably get off to She Wants Revenge also. This is watered down crap. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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