Editors return with new single ‘Forgiveness’ and an extensive run of festival appearances for the summer alongside shows with Manic Street Preachers in the UK.

Having released their fifth studio album, ‘In Dream’ last year, a record that singer Tom Smith remarked upon as an exercise in making music that was ‘both pop and experimental’, the band ended the year with a run of high profile and high selling dates across Europe and the UK including three sold out nights at Amsterdam’s Heineken Music Hall and a sell-out London return at Hammersmith’s Apollo.

‘Forgiveness’ amply demonstrates that desire to ignore genres by mixing a loose dancefloor beat with spiraling melodies and a highly politicized lyric, and premiered a moment ago on The Line Of Best Fit. Stream it below.

The album ‘In Dream’ was yet another musical shift for a band that have never relied on their past glories to create new music. Leaving behind the widescreen rock of previous album, ‘The Weight Of Your Love, the band took themselves to Crear in Western Scotland to self-produce a collection that references early electronic music and current pop simultaneously, ‘a mutation that suits them’, according to THE GUARDIAN in their review. With MOJO awarding the album a four-star review and the EVENING STANDARD matching that score and declaring the band ‘on track again’, Editors can rightly claim to be one of the most recognized and successful bands to have emerged from the UK in the last decade.

As has often been noted, Editors are not just a UK success story. Having scored Top Ten chart placings across Europe (including numerous Number Ones in Belgium), the band once again demonstrate their global appeal with a summer full of massive outdoor shows and headline festival moments. All dates are as follows:

MAY

With Manic Street Preachers

Friday 13th Liverpool Arena

Saturday 14th Birmingham Genting Arena

Monday 16th London Royal Albert Hall

Tuesday 17th London Royal Albert Hall

Friday 20th Leeds Arena

Saturday 21st Glasgow Hydro

JUNE

Saturday 4th Orange Warsaw Festival, Poland

Friday 10th Novarock, Nickelsdorf, Austria

Saturday 11th Heartland Festival, Denmark

Thursday 16th Mad Cool Festival, Madrid, Spain

Saturday 18th Best Kept Secret, Holland

Sunday 19th Maxidrom Festival, Moscow, Russian Federation

Friday 24th – Sunday 26th Hurricane/Southside Festival, Scheessel, Germany

Tuesday 28th Zitadelle, Berlin, Germany

Thursday 30th Bravalla Festival, Norrkoping, Sweden

JULY

Saturday 2nd Rock Werchter, Werchter, Belgium

Sunday 3rd Mainsquare Festival, Arras, France

Friday 8th Ejekt Festival, Athens, Greece

Saturday 9th Bilbao BBK Festival, Bilbao, Spain

Sunday 10th Musilac Festival, Aix Les Bains, France

Sunday 17th Vieilles Charrues, Carhaix, France

Monday 18th Sion Sous les Etoiles, Sion, France

Friday 22nd Siren Festival, Vasto, Italy

Sunday 24th Amphi Festival, Cologne, Germany

Friday 29th Y Not Festival, Matlock, UK

Friday 29th – Sunday 31st Indiependence Festival, Cork, Ireland