It's easy to describe a band by likening them to someone similar. It's also handy for listeners to make them understood what they sound like. However, it's just one of ways to introduce the music and what we want to know is not always a reminiscent of blah-blah-blah. So forget about Joy Division or Interpol. Let's focus more on what Editors are all about now.

Their Mercury Prize nominated debut album consists of three hit singles. Its dark and melancholic melodies and a front man Tom Smith's distinctive crooning voices remind us of a bit of Ian Curtis. However, I found that going through the whole album somehow a dull experience because there are a lack of definite direction of what Editors were aiming for, neither they wanted to go on to sound much darker with touching melodies nor just remain as one of three-minute pop song makers which many conventional indie bands ended up. In fact, they did have a lack of the style as a band and therefore their second album was the least to expect or it's gonna be a difficult second album cliche, sort of.

Surprisingly, tonight's Brixton Academy was full of energy between the band and their royal fans. The guitar sounds thrillingly and emotionally, rhythm section was also reliable to watch. Further, those band's ensemble made a perfect chemistry with Tom's unlikely, but very explosive voices and this was convinced enough to make those audiences sing-along their new songs happily. Although there was a doubtful moment that made me think 'Maybe they wanted to be next Coldplay' as Tom's way of playing the piano almost frenetically and singing with full of passion was as if he was Chris Martin or Editors could be their replacement for their silence from public. Well, I am the person who decide not to quote some one to compare the band I review at the beginning so what I can assume is that Editors are much better at live and this is worth seeing. They still maintain typical English melodies which move English's heart particularly deep which the mighty Coldplay is beginning to leave behind. Weather of England is always grey, but their musical direction seems to have find the way to exit from there.