There's always been a dance element to our music

Editors, it seems, are the latest in a long, long, looooonnnnng line of bands set to 'explore' a new direction on their third album entitled 'In This Light and On This Evening' due for release this September. It's a familiar tale from bands who ultimately run out of ideas. And Editors are a classic case in point. On album number 1 they sounded like Joy Division - no bad thing and not a bad album. By album number 2 it seemed as if Keane were their benchmark - not a good thing and not a good record.
So, for album number 3 they've decided to jettison the guitars altogether and aim for a 'synthetic' feel, with Flood the man at the controls of this venture into the world of faux-electronica. Essentially, it's Doves in reverse and it rarely works. Witness Mercury Rev's last album 'Snowflake Midnight' - a half-baked and underdone combination of bleeps and beats with Jonathon Donahue droning on about nymphs on the rocks and little or no input from Grasshopper, the man directly responsible for creating their classic debut 'Yerself Is Steam'. So instead of getting 'Chasing A Bee' or 'Syringe Mouth', we got 'Runaway fucking Raindrop' instead (profanity not in the original).
Taking the synth approach seems to be the classic method for bands who feel as if they've exhausted their traditional rock roots and it's rarely, if ever, done well. I don't expect Editors to buck this particular trend.
Editors play the Olympia in October but it's a sell-out.