The programme includes: civilized rock rather than frankly violent, just to make their album title lie. Violence bursts out left and right: pop for the big nights à la Arcade Fire on Magazine, grump ballad with No Sound But The Wind, 80s synthesizers on Counting Spooks. More controlled, more thought out, this fifth opus benefits from the input of Benjamin John Powers aka Blanck Mass, one half of Fuck Buttons, whose brutal but melodic noise of World Eater (2017) had caused the excitement of singer Tom Smith. To avoid diving into the extreme, Editors called someone else, the prolific Leo Abrahams—who often works behind the scenes with Brian Eno, David Byrne and Carl Barât—to rebalance it as a whole. It’s a big surprise.
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