This Birmingham band, formed at a college for music technicians and generally
considered “the British answer to Interpol,” broke into the local Top 10 with
its debut album The Back Room (released in 2005 following the single “Bullets”).
The quartet, which plays a post-punk revival style influenced by both Joy
Division and Echo & the Bunnymen, opened for Franz Ferdinand and released their
second album, An End Has a Start, in 2007. Subsequently, Editors shifted their
musical direction with the more electronic *In This Light and On This Evening*
(2009), their second consecutive numb...