Editors: 'Push Your Head Towards The Air'

Two albums down the line and Editors are still polarising opinion. For some, the maudlin Brummie rockers are the Co-op version of Joy Division, making gloomy post-punk that's acceptable for middle-aged accountants and Edith Bowman listeners. Others view them as a more intellectual version of Coldplay or Snow Patrol, a band with the potential to become global superstars thanks to their knack for wrapping haunting lyrics around brooding riffs. 2007's An End Has A Start matched its mixed reviews with middling success, topping the album chart on release, but failing, in sales terms at least, to really catch fire.

The album's fourth single is unlikely to persuade either party to change their views, as it finds the band treading well-worn musical ground. Neither as pulsating as 'The Racing Rats' nor as gracefully poignant as 'Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors', there's a reason it waited this long to become a single. Tom Smith's lyrical template is still a cut above his peers ("There's people climbing out of their cars, lining the roadside, trying to glimpse at the dead") but the scratching guitars and wobbly, tumbling piano lines are far too easily forgotten for this to be considered a classic. Editors still have grand ambitions, but they fail to scale those lofty heights on this track.