Tom Smith, Editors (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
Editors have shared their video for Hallelujah (So Low) after its premiere on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show yesterday.
“I wrote the words to Hallelujah (So Low) when I got back from a trip with Oxfam, visiting refugee camps in Northern Greece,” Tom Smith explains. “It was obviously an incredibly moving trip, seeing people living in dust, surviving only on the help of others was very moving.”
“Musically the track hung on the relationship between the acoustic guitar and the drum machine, that was part of the track from my demo, it had something special very early on. Then when Justin came up with his outrageous guitar riff we knew we had a winner.”
“It’s the most ‘rock’ we’ve ever been and it’s exhilarating. I think the video attempts to capture this intensity, both in the track and in us as a live band.”
The band’s next studio album Violence is set to hit the shelves on March 9th.
