With just three studio albums under their belt, Editors are set to release a career-spanning box set entitled 'Editors: The Complete Collection' in February 2011.
Made up of seven 12" vinyl records, seven 7s, a download card and a book, the collection will include B-sides, rarities and previously unreleased material as well as the Staffordshire band's three albums 'The Back Room' (2005), 'An End Has A Start' (2007) and 'In This Light and On This Evening (2009).
Frontman Tom Smith made a post on the band's official website, We've been picking through the archive recently, looking back at our 3 records, many many b-sides and some material that has never seen the light of day. It's been addictive. We can't leave it alone, much like picking a scab, and we've decided to package it all together and share it with our fans, officially. We've raided the vaults, searched through old CD-Rs, cassettes and photo albums and gathered it all together. We'd like you to have this music on any and every format we can produce and also share some photos and memories of the last 6 years in a volume that you can keep forever.
"So that's what we've done; coming in Feb 2011 is Editors, the complete collection. Unedited, if you like. Seven 12" heavy weight vinyls, seven CD's, a download of everything in high quality 320kbps mp3 format and a book of photos and words. It's gonna be sexy."
The post also revealed that pre-orders will be taken on the website from December 2nd, while the first 200 preorder will receive "a special personalised surprise from Tom".
The band are also set to get together to rehearse ideas for their fourth album very soon, and have plans to release some "special content" for free to those who register on their website between now and February.
