In the summer of 2005, it was hard to not be obsessed with Editors, the rousing British post-punk band who crashed our unsuspecting iPods with brilliant debut album The Back Room. Nearly two decades (and a handful of albums) on, they’ve turned obsession into song, and today (April 20) return with a powerful and thumping new track called “Heart Attack.” Says frontman Tom Smith: “‘Heart Attack’ is a song of obsession, about losing yourself in someone, a love song, a morbid love song.”
This electronic-fueled track marks Editors’ first new music since 2019, and the inaugural release with their newest member, Ivor Novello-winning composer and producer Benjamin John Power, also known as Blanck Mass. “Heart Attack” arrives with a psychedelic AI technology video from visual artist Felix Green. It’s very fucking metal, and something we’d love to see on a big screen.
“Typically when I’m making a music video I try to tune myself into the song and find the visual that resonates the loudest,” says Green. “More recently I’ve been working with AI generated art in my videos. It is a relatively new technology but its development is accelerating all the time. The full potential for it to completely revolutionize the visual creation process is yet to be seen. I currently think of working with the AI as a collaboration with a mad auteur who’s taken too much LSD. It is certainly quite interesting to be taken on a psychedelic journey by a computer who’s seen too much.”
That sort of thing could lead to obsession. Welcome back, Editors.
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