FRIDAY FEEDBACK: EDITORS

This band is not happy about doing photo shoots

This week's Friday Feedback track is:

"Smokers Outside The Hospital Room" by Editors
from the new LP An End Has A Start

What kind of a band begins a song with the lyrics: "Pull the blindfold down / So your eyes can't see / Now run as fast as you can / Through this field of trees"? A band that wants you to die, that's who.

And what band would have a hook that goes: "The saddest thing that I'd ever seen / Were smokers outside the hospital doors"? Obviously, a band that has never seen a puppy flattened by a steamroller while trying to save its best friend, Fluffy, a kitten that was intrigued by a ball of yarn thrown into the street by a little girl whose dying wish was to watch her two favorite pets play in a world without steamrollers.

And for the sake of Allah, what band names themselves after a group of employees only slight more enjoyable than anesthesiologists, meter maids, and repo men?

Regardless, Editors -- a British band that sounds like the love child of Arcade Fire, Joy Division, and J.J. Fad if J.J. Fad were not involved in the reproductive process -- has released a soaring, anthemic single that begs for multiple listens. But that's just my opinion.

What sayeth you?

--Junichi