Review: Editors

Review: Editors

Editors 'An End Has A Start': Aidin Vaziri | Editors, you might remember, released one of the most amazing singles last year. It was called "Munich," and the chorus went, "People are fragile things, you should know by now." It turns out the band wasn't entirely kidding. Even though that song came with an album that was quite good, "An End Has a Start" is a surprisingly shaky follow-up. It's packed with the kind of tunes you might imagine hearing in an arena while video monitors zoom in on singer Tom Smith's furrowed brow, but listening to 10 of them in a row is an unutterably tedious experience. Add to that choruses that are every bit as heavy as their titles suggest ("The Racing Rats," "The Weight of the World") and the front man's mundane observations on life and death ("You came on your own, that's how you'll leave," he sings on the title track), and it seems as if the end can't come fast enough.