Solo un paio di settimane ci separano da Violence, nuovo album degli Editors in uscita il 9 marzo, sperando che il livello si sia alzato rispetto ai deludenti The Weight Of Your Love e In Dream.

Dopo aver ascoltato il primo singolo Magazine e aver tentato di accattarci un weekend con la band nelle campagne del Surrey (a proposito, avete vinto?) la band di Tom Smith ha pubblicato il nuovo brano Hallelujah (So Low) durante la trasmissione di Annie Mac su BBC Radio 1. A corollario, pure una lunga intervista di Tom a Billboard, che riguardo a Violence spiega:

We wanted to make another record because that’s — I don’t know, man… we felt good about In Dream, but we wanted to keep moving forward and we felt like we had things to say and the songs were coming. Then eventually, once I started to write and got enough songs, 10-15 songs, we then got into a room together to try and decide on how this album was going sound. We found a place in Oxford, kind of a rehearsal room in some farmland. We put all our ideas in there and we spent months together just tinkering away with the songs.

Dopo la collaborazione con Rachel Goswell degli Slowdive e il progetto in comune Minor Victories, gli Editors hanno scelto un altro artista per lavorare sul nuovo Violence, Blanck Mass:

We called up a guy called Blanck Mass, who is one-half of Fuck Buttons. We liked his last record World Eater, specifically how brutal sonically it is. It’s quite a hard listen at times and it’s also sort of melodic. […] We thought well, if he could have some kind of influence on what we were doing, it might put this record into a place that would surprise us and give it a freshness. So yeah, he got on board. He started working on nearly every song we’d worked on. We got to the point then where we had two albums; we had this album we had done in Oxford and you have like the alternative kind of “Blanck Mass” version of the record.

Editors + Blanck Mass dunque. E se vi state chiedendo come suona questa inedita collaborazione, il nuovo singolo Hallelujah (So Low) ve ne darà un ottimo esempio.

Vi ricordiamo che gli Editors torneranno in Italia per un’unica data il prossimo aprile, al Mediolanum Forum di Assago (MI).