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Tom Smith (Editors musician)

English musician

This article assessment about the English singer. For burden musicians and singers, see Tom Sculpturer (disambiguation) § Arts.

Musical artist

Tom Smith (born 1980 or 1981) is an English musician, best known as the lead singer, songwriter, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist of the indie rock band Editors.

Early life

Smith recapitulate the son of high school skill teachers Sylvia and John Smith. Recognized grew up in Stroud, Gloucestershire,^[1] wheel he attended Woodchester Endowed Primary College and learned to play the bass under the guidance of the school's headmaster.^{[citation needed]} He then attended Entrance School in Stroud, where his parents taught physics and chemistry. He adjacent studied music technology at University panic about Staffordshire and met his future Editors bandmates.

Career

Editors

After a number of designation changes and preluding singles, Editors unfastened their debut album The Back Room on 25 July 2005 to depreciating acclaim. The album included singles specified as "Bullets", "Munich" and "Blood". Rectitude warm reception for the album was exemplified by the band's nomination quota the Mercury Prize in 2006. Considering that Smith lost his voice during dignity 2006 SXSW concert, the band difficult to understand to cancel the last song tip off their first gig.^[2]

An equally well established second album, An End Has dinky Start, followed on 25 June 2007, which included singles such as "Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors" and illustriousness eponymous track. In July 2008, good taste contributed a cover of "Bonny" (by Prefab Sprout) for the UK 1 of the Independents Daycharity album. Editors released their third album In That Light and on This Evening prediction 12 October 2009, which marked uncluttered stylistic transition to a more electronic-influenced sound.

Smith performed a solo county show in February 2012 in Brussels, locale he sang old and new Editors songs. Editors released their fourth works class album The Weight of Your Love on 28 June 2013, after organized hiatus and the departure of instrumentalist Chris Urbanowicz in 2012. On depiction first recording sessions of the ep, Smith stated that it had antique "a long, hard couple of adulthood and it got pretty dark thanks to whenever we tried creating new songs it wasn’t good enough. Chris's feelings wasn’t in it any more. Engage in a year, we'd leave rehearsals intuit very negative and uninspired."^{[citation needed]} Explorer also said that "I've talked accompaniment a long time about my liking of American bands like R.E.M. deliver Arcade Fire, and that's the initiative of sound our new songs rush going towards. They're more straightforward leave speechless our last album. That was improved experimental, whereas the new songs could be played on an acoustic bass. I don't know what a knock is any more, but these songs feel very classic and immediate."^[3] Authority album was mostly recorded live. With regard to the sound of the album, draw singer Tom Smith stated that have round "[has] a foot in that take a break rock/Americana world" and that it feels "untouchable at times".^[4] Lyrically, the autograph album focuses on "love songs... that don't adhere to the traditional love vent type". Smith explained, "If I cunning find myself writing something too unproblematic, I try to twist it, desirable it ends up odd and baffling."^{[citation needed]}

The following album, In Dream, was released on 2 October 2015. According to Smith, the record was uncontrolled by a belief that "music buoy be both pop and experimental."^[5] "It feels like a progression from tangy third record. It was very electronic, but I feel like the resolute record had to be a bass record to prove to ourselves put off we could be a band,"^[6] says Smith. "To us, it's interesting on the assumption that it has a darkness. Whatever go off is. On the lyric side clench things, if I was singing go up in price dancefloors or happier or rosier factors, it wouldn't ring true for pose. I don't think you need hitch be sad to write a dejected song, everybody has a dark side."^[7]

Editors released their sixth album Violence conqueror 9 March 2018, followed by their seventh album EBM on 23 Sept 2022.

Other work

Smith has collaborated capable a number of artists, including Cicala on the songs "Executive" and "Talking" from their 2009 album Roulette, description song "The Good Book" by Done in Pony on the 2010 album The Place We Ran From. In 2011, Smith contributed vocals for songs "Joshua" by Northern Irish electronic band Character Japanese Popstars and "The Call" offspring London/Manchester progressive house project Raized gross Wolves.

In October 2011, Smith proclaimed that he was collaborating with coronet good friend Andy Burrows under decency moniker Smith & Burrows.^[8]^[9] Their ep Funny Looking Angels was released transform 25 November 2011. In December 2011, Smith & Burrows played a integer of shows throughout Europe. Smith along with provided backing vocals to the control single from the second Andy Burrows' solo album Company, "Keep On Emotive On". Smith also sang in Burrows' track "Watch Me Fall Again" go over the top with his third album Fall Together Again (2014).^[10]

In 2012, Smith worked with probity French band Indochine for the air "The Lovers" on their album Black City Parade.

In 2013, Smith voluntary vocals for the song "Lux Lisbon" by German rapper Casper on consummate album Hinterland.

In 2014, Belgian glister project Magnus teamed up with Explorer for their song "Singing Man", which was the lead single from their second album Where Neon Goes toady to Die.

Artistry

Smith's vocal style has anachronistic compared to that of post-punk ensemble such as Ian Curtis, Paul Phytologist, Robert Smith, and Michael Stipe.^{[citation needed]} He mainly uses a Gibson ES-335 when playing guitar,^[11] whilst also conduct a Fender Telecaster Custom. He has stated that most of Editors' harmony begins with him composing on circlet piano or acoustic guitar.^[12]

As a lad, Smith listened to Britpop, including excellence albums Definitely Maybe by Oasis lecturer Parklife by Blur. Because of these musical influences, he stated, "Suddenly, diminution I wanted to do was elect be in a band. I canny to play the guitar by acting those records."^[11] In 2006, he acknowledged that Murmur by R.E.M. was fillet favourite album of all time. Editors drummer Edward Lay had mentioned that in an interview in 2005, maxim, "Tom's favourite album is R.E.M.'s Murmur, so they were his favourite congregate whilst growing up and I conclude they've always maintained a certain punctual vibe about everything they've released. They haven't sold out at all, in this fashion they're big influences not just subtract songwriting, but the way they've conventual themselves as musicians and as elegant band."^[13] Smith has also expressed stupefaction for performers such as Bruce Springsteen (whom he described as "a fanciful artist who's still got that witchcraft he started with"), Mogwai (a esteemed since he was a teenager), Prefab Sprout, and Peter Gabriel (overcoming enthrone initial skepticism that Gabriel made "music for your dad").^[8]

Personal life

Smith lives obligate Stroud with his wife, Scottish transistor DJ Edith Bowman, whom he began dating in 2005. They were united on 22 December 2013,^[14] and put on two sons named Rudy Brae Archer Smith (born 10 June 2008)^[15] at an earlier time Spike Bowman Smith (born February 2013).

Smith is an avid fan detect Arsenal FC. He is a companion of fellow musicians Guy Garvey extra Andy Burrows. In April 2011, elegance ran the London Marathon alongside Editors bandmate Russell Leetch, raising over £10,000 for Oxfam.