What are your top albums of the year? I sadly have not listened to many new albums this year, even though others have hailed this as a year of wonderful music. So, pretty much I'm stuck haveing to decide between Wilco, Radiohead, and British Sea Power.
In listening to the Editors, I'm struck by how they've managed to push two of their best tracks to B-Sides while leaving obviously more inferior tracks on the album The Back Room. What makes it all the more striking is that if these tracks had been placed on the album, they would have provided variety for an album where my main criticism is that it sounds the same.
I'm plugging the song "Let Your Good Heart Lead You Home" as one of the saddest, most haunting songs on record. Yes, that's right. Let's see it opens with the bleak lines of
You let the dark in, somehow
I feel the winter more now, more now
And then ends on this note:
Once you've gone girl, you can't come back
I am worried about you
It's quite a song. A song to shout about. "You Are Fading" is quit the corker as well. You should really like the Editors. I wonder if I made a Interpol/Editors mix if anyone who had never heard them could tell the difference. The funny thing is I don't care. If two talented bands make music that sound similar, that's great. I often find a sound I like and then search in vain for someone who sounds similar.
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