NEW ALBUM OUT STATESIDE JANUARY 19, 2010 WITH BONUS MATERIAL

Editors

“On their own terms, not anyone else’s, Editors have triumphed, aiming high and hitting the mark.” – The Sunday Times

In This Light And On This Evening, which debuted at #1 in the UK charts last week, is Editors‘s follow-up to 2007′s platinum selling An End Has A Start, and was produced by Grammy Award winner Mark “Flood” Ellis (U2, Sigur Ros, Depeche Mode). The album finds Editors heading in a new direction where synths replace the soaring guitars and lead singer Tom Smith takes his vocals to new places on an album with a dystopian, apocalyptic, mechanical ambience.

However, some things remain vintage Editors. The record is as bleak and as vivid as ever. “A record that sings of no God, a record of broken love songs, a record where the filthy city is so close you can smell it, taste it, a record of drunken violence, a record which has lost all trust in those in charge of our world,” describes Smith.

But those who focus on the gloom-and-doom in itself, he says, are missing the point. “Dark is interesting, dark is exciting, dark can be funny, there’s real life in the dark, real life IS dark,” says Smith. “When an album feels like this, the fragments of hope and love that do occasionally shine through, shine through ten times brighter than they would normally do so.”

To celebrate this week’s UK release of their third studio album, Editors have created a unique listening experience for their new album by appearing to ‘hack’ Google Street View. The experience allows fans to use a version of Google Maps on the Editors website to travel to certain areas of London where the band have hacked in their own custom locations. The new additions consist of some gloriously moody 360-degree images, shot at night. Within each location the user will hear a track from the new album, which was inspired by the mood and magic of London at night. The images feature the band and a group of their fans performing surreal activities, which reportedly have hidden meanings relating to the songs. The locations are normally unavailable on the regular Street View. Editors modified version of Google Maps allows users to enter into these locations and make the transition from light to dark so fans can explore the band’s atmospheric vision of London at night.

To access the Map go here.

To see the new video from Editors for their first UK single off the new album, “Papillion,” pop over here.