Listen :: Editors air new single 'Forgiveness'

Words: Sam Geary

First aired in November 2014 at a Rolling Stone Weekender festival in the US (see video at foot of post), and which appeared on last year's 'In Dream' album, Editors now announce 'Forgiveness' will be their next single, out on May 20.

Tom Smith, the band's frontman, says: "’Forgiveness’ is the only song on the record that’s led by a guitar. It’s quite dark lyrically, it is pretty bleak. ‘Forgiveness makes fools of all of us’… in a pop song that’s quite a dark thing to say."

Listen below.



Live dates

May
13 - Liverpool Arena*
14 - Birmingham Genting Arena*
16 - London Royal Albert Hall*
17 - London Royal Albert Hall*
20 - Leeds Arena*
21 - Glasgow Hydro*

June
4 - Orange Warsaw Festival, Poland
10 - Novarock, Nickelsdorf, Austria
11 - Heartland Festival, Denmark
16 - Mad Cool Festival, Madrid, Spain
18 - Best Kept Secret, Holland
19 - Maxidrom Festival, Moscow, Russian Federation
24-26 - Hurricane/Southside Festival, Scheessel, Germany
28 - Zitadelle, Berlin, Germany
30 - Bravalla Festival, Norrkoping, Sweden

July
2 - Rock Werchter, Werchter, Belgium
3 - Mainsquare Festival, Arras, France
8 - Ejekt Festival, Athens, Greece
9 - Bilbao BBK Festival, Bilbao, Spain
10 - Musilac Festival, Aix Les Bains, France
17 - Vieilles Charrues, Carhaix, France
18 - Sion Sous les Etoiles, Sion, France
22 - Siren Festival, Vasto, Italy
24 - Amphi Festival, Cologne, Germany
29 - Y Not Festival, Matlock, UK
29-31 - Indiependence Festival, Cork, Ireland

* = w/ Manic Street Preachers