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EDITORS "Back Room" Reviews
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AZRating: 7.9
Users rating: 9.4 |
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Release: 28 Jul 2005
Label: Kitchenware
Genre: Rock
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| Giant Magazine |
Rating: 10.0 |
Angsty, gloomy and awesome, Britain’s Editors should have Coldplay quaking in their trainers.
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| E!Online |
Rating: 9.1 |
The Back Room is a fine album that proves you can look backward while paving the way forward. The Editors, gotta love 'em.
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| PM Media |
Rating: 9.1 |
You'll be glad you found this.
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| MusicOMH.com |
Rating: 9.0 |
It's an album of consistently high quality from start to finish.
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| Drowned in sound |
Rating: 9.0 |
on repeated listens, the natural beauty of this record undresses itself slowly with an unashamed earnestness. The real flash of inspiration comes with centre-piece 'Camera', which becomes almost biblical with its enriching spirit, replete with echoing church vocals and funeral organ sounds.
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| NME |
Rating: 8.0 |
Editors embrace the light and the dark and, in doing so, have created a debut that will endure.
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| Times Online |
Rating: 8.0 |
The Back Room harks back to a pre-Oasis time when indie bands observed an important distinction between making a big beautiful noise and yielding to rock's more priapic excesses.
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| BBC Music |
Rating: 8.0 |
This album grabs you by the scruff of the neck and demands your attention. This widescreen rock will soon be filling the biggest venues in the land.
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| Playlouder |
Rating: 8.0 |
'The Back Room' is a record whose observations scream to be scrawled out verbatim by an adoring public and, on this evidence, Editors are a division liable to provoke great joy all round.
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| Crud Magazine |
Rating: 8.0 |
‘The Back Room’ delivers perfectly, and with little waste, is a focussed tribute to the attributes that made Joy Division’s memory so enduring, fashioned by industrious craftsmen, executed with tight flair.
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| Jam! |
Rating: 8.0 |
Derivative as The Editors' music is, it's not short on impact, thanks to the emotional weight vocalist Tom Smith brings to the moody lyrics and a bright recording.
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| Dotmusic |
Rating: 7.0 |
"The Back Room" is, principally, a triumph.
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| Popmatters |
Rating: 7.0 |
The songs Editors have given us here are definitely worth listening to.
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| SoundsXP |
Rating: 7.0 |
There's probably at least a couple of minutes too much doom for comfort on 'The Back Room' but the fierce energy and perfect source material make this an exciting, if not groundbreaking debut.
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| MusicEmissions.com |
Rating: 7.0 |
This kind of moody pop is not an easy thing to do and Editors do it very well. And the more you get familiar with the album, the more it sticks in your head.
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 6.0 |
Editors often imitate bands with dramatic vocalists like Ian Curtis or Ian McCulloch, but the best moments on The Back Room aren't the theatrical ones-- it's when the four of them are playing and discovering their own chemistry.
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| PrefixMag |
Rating: 6.0 |
The Back Room has the feeling of an album cobbled together too quickly. Many of the songs seem vague and unfinished.
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Users comments
| Juan |
Rating: 9.0 |
very good album has a cool sound and a good rock |
| OmarB |
Rating: 8.0 |
I think its a great album have a balance and great songs too and they deserve be more famuos here, too few people hear them that`s too bad.
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| Hugh |
Rating: 10.0 |
Very good album. I bought this album because I listened to their music when they were a 'warm-up band' an a Franz Ferdinand concert. Munich , Bullets and Blood are my favourite songs. |
| Rolando |
Rating: 10.0 |
Because of my ZUNE, I really have "Munich" in my head. It is really what I was looking for when I was in searching of new music. I ought to recommend it. Thanks to Zune team to include this great bands in the preloaded content!!! |
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