Editors: the real deal

After hearing 'Munich' on Dutch alternative station Kink FM earlier this week, I went right out and bought Editors' debut album, The Back Room, and I've been playing it to death since. Sure, they've been influenced by Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen and The Chameleons. Sure, they sound like a cross between Coldplay and Franz Ferdinand. Sure, the album has a couple of weak moments, but when a band has got it they've got it. And Editors have got it. I like to think of it as 'the oomph factor', the spark that takes a recording beyond the sum of its parts and straight into the listener's heart, making you want to hear it again and again. 'Munich', 'Blood', 'All sparks' all do this like no other new music I have heard this year.