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Title: Solid
Review: Editor's The Back Room is a solid debut. Though it's steeped in 80s pop culture, and is sure to be dismissed by Interpol-fawning goth kids, it's an intensely focused work for such a young band. And though their influences are there on the surface -- Joy Division, The Cure, Nick Cave, and many more -- their songs are sharp, their lyrics meaningful, the production crisp without overwhelming the passion. The music might be depressive -- or, at the very least, minor chord -- but the lyrics have an outreach beyond the navel-gazing of most of what passes for "goth"; and those are certainly pop hooks I hear on the 11 tracks of the formal CD. And, for good measure, there's a bonus CD called Cuttings with six tracks of thrash and drone.
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