I’ve been flirting in and around the post-punk revival style now but in reading about it on Wikipedia and AllMusic, the same four bands keep coming up as giving birth to the genre: Franz Ferdinad, Interpol, Editors and The Strokes. When I listened to Interpol, I thought there was a little bit of The Strokes in [...]
Having done a bit of Googling, I found a few chat-room\bulletin board\forum arguments about Interpol and whether they were better than or too similar to Editors. I’ve been listening to a lot of Editors recently and I love their style – listening to them I’m always reminded of just how blown away by the guitar [...]
Yet again I fail to see why a so called classic album is held in such high regard. I liked Screamadelica far more than Pills n Thrills and Bellyaches. It’s much cleverer and has much more layers to it. This album is very much three dimensional album, the more you listen to it, the more [...]
This is one of my favorite albums. I love Editors, they are amazing live and now I understand what they were trying to on In This Light … and the Joy Division infleunces are just adding more and more to thier stock. I have a long connection with Editors, they were the first band that I embraced [...]
I’ve had this album a long time, but the long introductions and the fact no song jumps straight out as Editors-esque besides Papillon (which I think is possibly their best single) I’ve glossed over it many times. Having heard the Editors influence in Joy Division, it’s hard to escape the similarities on this album. Like [...]
From James I had to stay with the early 90′s Brit pop and given that I’d had a look at ‘Madchester’ with The Stone Roses, AllMusic and lots of similar sites kept mentioning one similar artist, The Happy Mondays. Their most critically acclaimed album was Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches, from this one example of [...]