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The Weight Of Your Love

Editors

The Weight Of Your Love

Fourth album of brooding indie rock from the Birmingham five-piece and first since the departure of guitarist Chris Urbanowicz

ADM rating[?]

5.5

Label
Play It Again Sam
UK Release date
01/07/2013
US Release date
09/07/2013
  1. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Superb songs about consumptive, ailing love. Print edition only

  2. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    Refocused and re-energised, Editors sound ready to rewrite their history
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  3. 8.0 |   The Digital Fix

    The Weight Of Your Love is testament to their resilience, delivering as it does, some of their finest material to date
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  4. 7.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    You can hear the effort that was put into making it as galactic and sprawling as it is
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  5. 7.4 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    At the very least, ‘The Weight of Your Love’ is successful in getting the talented Englishmen back on track
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  6. 7.0 |   DIY

    In all the stylistic change and mixed results it brings one constant remains, that being the power of Tom Smith's voice, whose rich tones adds an undeniable quality to proceedings
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  7. 7.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Although The Weight of Your Love doesn't succeed to the same extent as other, older European rock albums drenched in American influences, it makes for a nicely retooled, if occasionally misguided, formula
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  8. 7.0 |   All Music

    Brings to mind the passionate, soulful rock of U2 and Echo & the Bunnymen
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  9. 6.0 |   Q

    Their belated return sees them less earthbound and lighter on their feet. Print edition only

  10. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    The album is what Joy Division might have been like if only they had a bigger ambition and a bigger budget. And that’s something, as formulaic as The Weight of Your Love can be, to take pretty seriously
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  11. 6.0 |   The Observer

    Finds them returning to their indie roots, without ever quite recapturing the excitement of their early singles
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  12. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Without a twist or a dramatic development of the narrative, it’s questionable whether they can sustain attention for too much longer. For now, it’s just about enough
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  13. 5.4 |   Paste Magazine

    Urbanowicz’s guitar and keyboard lines were often the live wire that kept even the band’s most eye-rolling moments palatable. It would have been thrilling to hear what sparks of energy he could have brought to Weight
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  14. 5.0 |   Uncut

    It's hard to find anything out of the ordinary here beyond the usual blend of angst rock and stadium bombast. Print edition only

  15. 5.0 |   Under The Radar

    An album which is categorized more by what is missing than what isn't
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  16. 5.0 |   musicOMH

    In trying to both retreat from the synths of album three, and progress from the epic soft-rock of album two, Editors have managed to produce an album that is neither interesting nor stirring
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  17. 4.0 |   Time Out

    There’s hardly a spark here of the vital, gut-punching energy that once, briefly, made Editors an exciting prospect
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  18. 4.0 |   The Arts Desk

    An album all about love in its many forms, falls into the middle ground of a carefully maintained long term relationship where the thrills have dissipated
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  19. 4.0 |   NME

    It's so phoned-in I had to fight the temptation to hang up
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  20. 4.0 |   Clash

    The whole exercise seems so carefully crafted and desperately needy that any joy found within ‘The Weight Of Your Love’ wears off the more you play it
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  21. 4.0 |   The Guardian

    There is a plethora of musical markers in there – from U2 on Ton of Love to Coldplay on Bird of Prey, not to mention the Verve or the Killers themselves, but no cohesive sound
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  22. 4.0 |   The Irish Times

    Editors’ previous work has been succinct, taut and often intriguing; this album is a perfect example of a band that has simply lost direction
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  23. 4.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    TWOYL involves a few tiny tweaks – new members, Americana, falsetto – but is largely business as usual
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  24. 4.0 |   The Independent

    Editors here step backwards into the crepuscular netherworld of Eighties new wave from whence they took their original inspiration
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  25. 4.0 |   The Scotsman

    The polished production on this fourth album pitches them onto the indiefied MOR slurry heap alongside Coldplay, The Script et al
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  26. 4.0 |   State

    Offers little in the way of surprises and even less in the way of delights
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