Editors - In Dream

So that’s it now. The nights are getting longer and just in time for the agonisingly slow goodbye to summer Stafford dark disco virtuosos Editors are back once more. Packing a truckload of on-trend synth alongside the still oddly compelling Tom Smith, In Dream hatches with a weighty power that promises you something steely but that ultimately can only sustain itself for half a record before buckling under its own weight. No Harm is a belting opener, setting a thudding energy that carries through to the bruising heft of Salvation. It’s a shame, then, that the first keystrokes of fifth track Life is a Fear mark the start of a lull from which the album never quite recovers. Rachel Goswell of Slowdive appears now and again to breathe something chilling and welcome into things (The Law being a gripping highlight at the mid-point) but at its end In Dream feels like it just falls short of its potential. Cut down to a 5-track EP this would have been a proper gem. As a full length release it won’t do you wrong but you might feel that it could have been so much more.