Editors: Violence review – brawny, hooky and tinged with feeling

(Play It Again Sam)A man untroubled by Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours theory, 16 years in, Editors’ Tom Smith still writes lyrics like he’s planning the script for a particularly zealous ghost tour. Lovers scream, bones turn to dust, streets are paved with souls and poor old Britain has been reduced to “charred remains”. So Violence’s crowning achievement is that most of this portentous nonsense is disguised by music that is often genuinely fun. To their chag