Artists to Watch: The Editors

The Editors Are Set To Unleash Their Debut Album In 2005

Birmingham-based Editors released "Bullets," their debut single for Kitchenware, on January 24th, 2005. A darkly wrought piece of emotional fire, the single's chorus seems sure to hang in the mind and begin to draw the listener into a world of half realized ambitions and extraordinary beauty. The new band has a clutch of tracks that will form the basis of their debut album, due later in 2005.

Drawing on their love of early REM, Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen, Editors have honed an identifiably English sound focused on the grand themes of love, loss and redemption, and display a very literate flair. Early shows and a smattering of demos led to record company interest and the band elected to sign to independent Kitchenware, a label that shared their vision of creating a catalog that would stand the test of time rather than a short, sharp burst of attention all too prevalent in the current musical landscape.