Boy/Girl duo Edits return with the thunderous Burn, drawing inspiration from early Muse, Death From Above 1979 and Nine Inch Nails, it’s their heaviest song to date.
Pulsing, driving and blood pumping, Burn interweaves distortion drenched guitars with arpeggiating synth lines and soars into anthemic choruses.
Burn is completely self produced, culminating from the band’s time studying at The University of Salford, where they began their musical journey. Liv (Vocals & Synths) and Chris (Guitars) have known each other since the age of 15 but it was during this time that things really began to fall into place. Having moved back to Cheshire, the band still spend a lot of time gigging in their adopted home of Manchester, but equally now in their hometown of Northwich, in which there is an ever increasing music scene.
In this interview spotlight, I chat with Edits about their new music, challenges, technology and more.
Full Q&A along with links and music below.
Where are you from and what style of music do you create? (In your own words, not necessarily in marketing terms or by popular genre classifications.)
We’re based in Northwich, Cheshire but still see ourselves as a Manchester band as that’s where we went to Uni together.
Our music is a hybrid of atmospheric, synth-pop and alt-rock, we tend to just write whatever we feel like!
What led you down this path of music and what motivates you to keep going?
We’ve always has a passion for music and can’t really imagine life without it! What keeps us going is whenever someone says they like a song of ours or they enjoyed a gig, simple things really, but it means so much to us. To be honest even if we didn’t have that we’d still keep going just for ourselves!
How is this new release different than previous ones? Were you trying to accomplish anything specific?
‘Burn’ is probably our heaviest song to date and is a complete contrast to our last single ‘Cold’. It has a raw energy about it, more so than our other songs. It came about really quickly, we didn’t set out to do anything specific, it just all came naturally which I think is how the best songs are written.
Name one or two challenges you face as an indie musician in this oversaturated, digital music age? How has technology helped you (since we know it does help)?
Trying to get heard and stand out from the crowd can be tricky these days. Social media does mean that we’ve reached people in countries we never would have before. Also, technology has helped us in the sense that we record everything ourselves and have total creative freedom, whereas in the past the only option would have been to go to a studio.
What was the last song you listened to?
House Plants by Squid – We heard this on the John Kennedy’s Xposure Show and really liked it.
Recently I’ve (Liv) been listening to Another Sky and Chris has been listening to the newly available Tool back catalogue on Spotify.
Which do you prefer? Vinyl? CDs? MP3s?
We love vinyl as it’s nice to have something tangible but we still own CDs and iPods which get a lot of love on long car journeys.
How about this one…. Do you prefer Spotify? Apple Music? Bandcamp? Or something else? Why?
Bandcamp is definitely best for the artist, however we personally both use Spotify to listen to music at home on a daily basis and its great for discovering new stuff.
Where is the best place to connect with you online and discover more music?
We’re on all social media (Facebook and Instagram are probably the best)
Out handle is @editsband.
We’ve also got a website: https://www.editsband.com where you can find everything really.
Anything else before we sign off?
We have a gig coming up on the 30th of August at The Railway in West Didsbury where we’ll be giving a preview of some new material!
