Editors: Lullaby
It seems like I've been posting a lot of covers lately. I hope you don't mind, but here's another, a bit inspired by this evening. If you've somehow managed to not hear Editors before, go check them out; this may be a cover, but it's an excellent example of their style.
In a statement about their most recent album and criticism of its tone, Tom Smith wrote, "dark is interesting, dark is exciting, dark can be funny, there’s real life in the dark, real life IS dark...I am so fucking bored of people asking us why we’re so “dark”, or worse questioning our integrity for being this way, this is how we do it, it excites us to express ourselves like this, to be honest we don't even understand what the alternative is and the alternatives we can imagine are too boring for us to even consider". Did he just write the Manifesto?*
Who better to rework a Cure song, then, than Editors? Smith invokes Ian Curtis to make Robert Smith's lyrics a little more paranoid, but I'm still not buying that he's really afraid of "the spider man". In fact, I suspect that he might just be inviting him over for dinner.
This track is taken from the 2 disc compilation, released in 2007 and bizarrely listed as being a Kaiser Chiefs album (they contributed the first track). It chronicles 40 years of the legendary radio show with 40 artists doing a cover for each year. Editors were assigned 1989; they certainly did right to choose a song off of Disintegration.
Editors: Lullaby
*I prefer the word "grufti" because it's much more inclusive than "goth". I encourage you to use it as well!
Posted: August 21st, 2010
at 6:06pm by qbot
Tagged with 2007, bbc, british, chris urbanowicz, covers, disintegration, editors, edward lay, goth, grufti, ian curtis, joy division, lullaby, nocturna, post punk, radio 1, russell leetch, the cure, tom smith
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