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EDITORS
ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF 8TH STUDIO ALBUM, SURFACE, ECHO & SOUND.
ALONGSIDE LATEST SINGLE ‘THE RUSH’ – OUT VIA PLAY IT AGAIN SAM.
LISTEN TO SINGLE HERE / WATCH THE VIDEO HERE
Editors have today announced details of their 8th studio album, Surface, Echo & Sound, set for release via Play It Again Sam on 30th October 2026. Alongside this announcement, the group have delivered the latest single to be taken from the record, ‘The Rush’.
Following on from 2022’s EBM, a collaboration with electronic producer Benjamin John Power, aka Blanck Mass, on Surface, Echo & Sound, Editors have found themselves somewhere new entirely. When the band regrouped in summer 2025 to work on a follow-up, after three albums written and recorded very much as in-the-studio projects, Editors felt they wanted to go back to a more natural approach, something that harked back to their earliest days, sat in a practice room in Stafford, facing each other as they worked through songs together.
Like on last year’s solo record There is Nothing In The Dark That Isn’t There In The Light, frontman Tom Smith took a similar stripped back, acoustic-based approach to the new Editors material, bringing a selection of songs to the band for them to play together, trying different things out, and seeing where they went. In terms of creating the record, “It was a very productive summer,” says Smith. “The sun was out for the most part, we were in greenest Gloucestershire, not far from where I live, on this innocuous little industrial estate – it was pretty much the opposite of being in Berghain!”
‘The Rush’ is described by the frontman as an imagined bar scene of two people talking about life, drinking, and thinking about all the ups and downs. Smith continues, “that idea of finding comfort in people close to me, friends and loved ones and family, is a theme that comes up all the time. It’s a theme that is in everything to a degree.”
The track features Smith on mandolin, an instrument that provides a more organic core to Surface, Echo & Sound. “It’s not used in a folky kind of way, but it brings a warm element that can spike through anything in the mix,” says the band’s guitarist Justin Lockey who also recorded and produced the album. “As a texture, it’s definitely a big character on this record. A lot of the rhythms come from the mandolin and the acoustic as much as they do from the drums.”
The single arrives alongside an official video, shot in Tokyo and directed by Henry Ehara, known for work that emphasises bodily expression in film, exploring the physicality of movement and presence.
Track listing is as follows:
Surface, Echo & Sound
Call It In
The Rush
Rescue
Shadow
Real
Happiness
Much Love
Butterfly Wings
Seriously
The Hills We Died Upon
PRE-ORDER / SAVE THE ALBUM HERE
Catalogue Number: PIASR1676LP / Available LP, CD, Cassette & Digital
Watch the official video for ‘The Rush’ here
Having already announced a number of European festival appearances over the summer, the band also open a new venue in Birmingham, and have shared details of a headline tour in 2027. Most recently adding arena shows at Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam & AFAS Dome, Antwerp.
The full list of dates is as follows:
Summer 2026
09.07.26 – The Warehouse at Villa Park – BIRMINGHAM, UK
12.07.26 – Cactus Festival – BRUGES, BE
18-19.07.26 – Splendour 2026 – NOTTINGHAM, UK
25.07.26 – On The Beach – BRIGHTON, UK
31.07-01.08.26 – Low Festival – BENIDORM, ES
07.08.26 – Lokerse Feesten – LOKEREN, BE
08.08.26 – Suikerrock – TIENEN, BE
14.11.26 – Inside Seaside Festival – GDANSK, PL
Tour dates
UK and Ireland
28th Feb – Vicar St, Dublin
1st March – Ulster Hall, Belfast
2nd March – o2 Academy, Glasgow
4th March – o2 City Hall, Newcastle
5th March – o2 Apollo, Manchester
7th March – o2 Academy, Leeds
8th March – Rock City, Nottingham
9th March – Prospect Building, Bristol
11th March – o2 Academy Brixton, London
12th March – o2 Guildhall, Southampton
EU
26th Jan – Le 106, Rouen, France
27th Jan – Le Cigale, Paris, France
29th Jan – La Riviera, Madrid, Spain
30th Jan – Auditorio Roig Arena, Valencia, Spain
31st Jan – Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain
2nd Feb – X-Tra, Zurich, Switzerland
3rd Feb – Alcatraz, Milan, Italy
4th Feb – Borcarski Dom, Zagreb, Croatia
6th Feb – SaSaZu, Prague, Czech Republic
7th Feb – Zenith, Munich, Germany
8th Feb – Gasometer, Vienna, Austria
10th Feb – Stodola, Warsaw, Poland
11th Feb – Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany
12th Feb – The Grey Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
14th Feb – Palladium, Cologne, Germany
15th Feb – Rockhal, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
16th Feb – Felsenkeller, Leipzig, Germany
18th Feb – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, Netherlands
19th Feb – AFAS Dome, Antwerp, Belgium
20th Feb – Inselpark Arena, Hamburg, Germany
Tickets available here.
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Formed in 2002, having met at university in Stafford, Editors have released seven studio albums all of which achieved top 10 status in the UK.
Their debut album, The Back Room (2005) received a Mercury Prize nomination and the 2007 follow up, An End Has A Start, reached number 1 in the UK and went on to earn a Brit Award nomination. Their 2009 album In This Light And On This Evening also hit the top spot in the UK album charts and they released their last album, EBM in 2022.
Never afraid to musically explore different shades and colours, over the past 20+ years they have become one of the U.K.’s most loved and acclaimed bands both at home and around the world.
Editors’ Discography: The Back Room (2005), An End Has A Start (2007), In This Light and On this Evening (2010), The Weight Of Your Love (2013), In Dream (2015), Violence (2018), EBM (2022)
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