release date: Oct. 2, 2015
format: digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5 ] [3,43]
producer: Editors
label: Play It Again Sam - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "No Harm" - 2. "Ocean Of Night" (4 / 5) (radio broadcast) - 5. "Life Is A Fear" (3 / 5) - 10. "Marching Orders" (3 / 5)
5th studio album by Editors is very much like a sequel to The Weight of Your Love from 2013 with synth elements from the lesser third album, In This Light and on This Evening from 2009. It contains one great track and then a few fine compositions, but I don't find that it's up there among the 3 best from the band - it's close, though - but... basically it's the second least interesting studio release from Editors without being anywhere near just a mediocre album. I think, what I miss on this is something 'new' - a sign of being in a process where the band is reaching for an artistic development of some sort... and that's hardly recognizable as it sounds so familiar - perhaps too familiar.
Music critics also seem divided on this.
[ allmusic.com, Mojo 4 / 5, Uncut 2,5 / 5, Q Magazine 2 / 5 stars ]
