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Editors is een Britse indierockband, bestaande uit Tom Smith (zang/gitaar), Russell Leetch (basgitaar), Ed Lay (drums), Justin Lockey (gitaar) en Eliott Williams (keyboards, gitaar). Tot april 2012 maakte ook gitarist Chris Urbanowicz deel uit van de band.

Het debuutalbum The Back Room, met als bekendste single "Munich", werd in 2005 uitgebracht en werd genomineerd voor een Mercury Music Prize. Het vervolgalbum, An End Has a Start, kwam in 2007 uit en bevatte onder meer de hitsingle "The Racing Rats". Later werden ook nog de albums In This Light and on This Evening (2009), The weight of your love (2013), In dream (2015) en Violence (2018) uitgebracht.

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Editors are an English rock band, formed in 2002 in Birmingham. Previously known as Pilot, The Pride and Snowfield, the band currently consists of Tom Smith (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Russell Leetch (bass guitar, synthesiser, backing vocals), Ed Lay (drums, percussion, backing vocals), Justin Lockey (lead guitar), Elliott Williams (keys, synthesizers, guitars, and backing vocals), and Benjamin John Power (composer and producer).

Editors have so far released two platinum studio albums, and seven in total, with several million combined sales. Their debut album The Back Room was released in 2005. It contained the hits "Munich" and "Blood" and the following year received a Mercury Prize nomination.

Their follow-up album An End Has a Start went to number 1 in the UK Album Chart in June 2007 and earned the band a Brit Awards nomination for best British Band. It also spawned another Top 10 hit single, "Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors". The band's third album, In This Light and on This Evening, was released in October 2009 and went straight to number 1 in the UK Album Chart. The band released their fourth studio album, The Weight of Your Love, in July 2013, followed by self-produced In Dream in October 2015. In 2018, the band released their sixth album Violence. Their seventh album, EBM, was released in September 2022.

Alongside their critical acclaim and strong success in the UK Singles Chart, they consistently enjoyed sold-out tours and numerous headlining festival slots. Their brand of dark indie rock is commonly compared to the sound of bands such as Echo & the Bunnymen, Joy Division, Interpol, The Chameleons and U2.