The Back Room
- Editors
- Band Name: Editors
- Record Label: Fader / Kitchenware
- Release Date: Mar 21, 2006
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91The Back Room is a fine album that proves you can look backward while paving the way forward.
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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.
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It's how Interpol would sound like if they dealt with universal themes and reflection rather than singing about fellatio fantasies with Stella, or their length of loves.
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90It's an album of consistently high quality from start to finish.
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A debut that will endure.
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80If you were disappointed by 'Antics' then this'll make up for it, and if Interpol's last offering did agree with you then you'll spend the rest of '05 at least giving this a great big hug.
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80Guitars, sounding like synths, soar into the stratosphere, and intense crescendos linger over delicate, breathy passages. [Aug 2005, p.94]
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Where [Interpol] often seem weighed down by their own miserable aura, Editors sound brightest in teh depths of their blackened pop gems. [Apr 2006, p.204]
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80The longer you listen, the better they become.
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Leavening the melancholy with a tense, literate sense of foreboding, The Back Room flows like an obsidian wave from first song to last.
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The Back Room is an agreeable, sturdy, and surprisingly re-playable debut, one which should probably keep any brooding college kid who's worn out his copy of Antics happy for the coming autumn.
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70"The Back Room" is, principally, a triumph.
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Editors' sound is deeply and thoroughly derivative, to be sure. But they do it so well that by the time each chorus rolls around, you won't even notice your Robert Smith mascara running. [#10, p.110]
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70As much as The Back Room is a victory for style, it also strikes a blow for substance. [Aug 2005, p.135]
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[They] possess a knack for tempering melodrama with minor keys and predictable beats. [Apr/May 2006, p.102]
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70It is such a perfect counterfeit that it feels like the genuine article.
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70The Back Room is an assured debut album from a promising band.
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Bands like Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen are hard acts to follow, especially when they're followed so deliberately. [24 Mar 2006, p.70]
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They're good at what they do, but what they're doing is painting-by-numbers from someone else's book.
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60Editors 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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Because these swirls of desperation are as much about aura as fully formed tunes, their payoff is negligible. [23 Mar 2006, p.65]
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The Back Room has the feeling of an album cobbled together too quickly.
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The album starts repeating itself and the returns start diminishing.
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