Editors go Hi Res at London's Metropolis Studios
During a London event to showcase its own Hi Res audio line (almost 50 products, from Walkman to headphones and radios), Sony invited the Editors at the Metropolis Studios. They were chosen to be the protagonists of a virtual trip to rediscover that purity of sound that only Hi Res technology can offer.
These studios, from 1999 (the year they were born, in the same building where once London's old Power Station for trams was located), were chosen by many big names to record - from the Libertines to Amy Winehouse . And during the event, the Editors revisited the tracks of their "In this light and on this evening" and "The weight of your love" albums. Then they performed a short acoustic set with guitar, voice and piano (they played "Munich" and "Smokers outside the hospital doors").
Tom Smith explained his point of view on the importance of Hi Res in the field of albums and he did so telling an anecdote: "Hi Res gives an album a greater depth", he said. "It brings to the front sonic details which are important to understand the sequence of an album's tracklist. For instance, in 'In this light and on this evening', the synth you can hear in the title track - the opening track - is the same, with the same exact sound, we hid at the end of the last song, 'Walk the fleet road'. And I recognized it listening to the album in Hi Res: this made me remember how we chose to do that trick, to give our listeners the feeling of having reached the end of the album, using this symmetry".
The Bimingham-based trio, then, explained why 'The weight of your love' was recorded in Nashville: "After we finished a successful tour, we spent six or seven weeks rehearsing new tracks in a couple of fancy London studios, but we soon realized we were going nowhere. Actually we knew we had different ideas about how the new songs should sound. We simply knew each other too well and we weren't able to talk frankly anymore. But we really believed our new songs deserved a better chance. Then we decided we wanted to go on without Chris and we'd be a trio; at the same time we decided we should record in the USA, instead of sending there the tracks to an American producer. This idea came to us because we felt the new songs sounded simpler and more stripped down, compared to our previous material and they had a very American feeling - music inspired by R.E.M., for instance. Bringing the songs from London to Nashville, they radically changed, as if they had new life...".
