Credit: Rahi Rezvani

Ahead of their eighth studio album, Surface, Echo & Sound, set for release via Play It Again Sam on 30th October, Editors have today shared their new single Seriously. With a fervent delivery, it leads a fresh new chapter for the band as soaring synth notes light up a backdrop of chiming guitars and uplifting vocals. Lyrically it’s about finding a way forward in times when life darkens, with Smith adding, “So much of the stuff that has been written about us in the past focused on a darkness or a bleakness. But every time someone wants to talk to me about our band or shows me a tattoo they have of one of our lyrics or wants me to write some lyrics down for them, it’s always lyrics that have love and warmth and hope in them. If you remove them from their setting, or perhaps the way I’ve sung them, they’re not dark at all.” Speaking about the record and how it came together, he continues, “It was a very productive summer,” says Smith. “The sun was out for the most part, we were in greenest Gloucestershire, not far from where I live, on this innocuous little industrial estate – it was pretty much the opposite of being in Berghain!” Take a listen to Seriously below. 

UK and Ireland 
28th Feb - Vicar St, Dublin 
1st March - Ulster Hall, Belfast 
2nd March - o2 Academy, Glasgow 
4th March - o2 City Hall, Newcastle 
5th March - o2 Apollo, Manchester 
7th March - o2 Academy, Leeds 
8th March - Rock City, Nottingham 
9th March - Prospect Building, Bristol 
11th March - o2 Academy Brixton, London 
12th March - o2 Guildhall, Southampton 

EU 
26th Jan - Le 106, Rouen, France 
27th Jan - Le Cigale, Paris, France 
29th Jan - La Riviera, Madrid, Spain 
30th Jan - Auditorio Roig Arena, Valencia, Spain 
31st Jan - Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain 
2nd Feb - X-Tra, Zurich, Switzerland 
3rd Feb - Alcatraz, Milan, Italy 
4th Feb - Borcarski Dom, Zagreb, Croatia 
6th Feb - SaSaZu, Prague, Czech Republic 
7th Feb - Zenith, Munich, Germany 
8th Feb - Gasometer, Vienna, Austria 
10th Feb - Stodola, Warsaw, Poland 
11th Feb - Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany 
12th Feb - The Grey Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark 
14th Feb - Palladium, Cologne, Germany 
15th Feb - Rockhal, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg 
16th Feb - Haus Auensee, Leipzig, Germany 
18th Feb - Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, Netherlands 
19th Feb - AFAS Dome, Antwerp, Belgium 
20th Feb - Inselpark Arena, Hamburg, Germany

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