“Formaldehyde” by Editors

Editors pulled "Formaldehyde" from The Weight of Your Love, their fourth album, as its second single in 2013, on 7" vinyl and as a download. Tom Smith called it a love song, if a gory one: a sugar-coated heart, dissected, bloodied and kept in a jar.

Jacquire King produced, Lowell Reynolds recorded and Craig Silvey mixed, with Steve Herrman on trumpet, John Hinchey on trombone and Jim Hoke on saxophone. The writing credit is split five ways, between Smith, Russell Leetch, Ed Lay, Justin Lockey and Elliott Williams. For the video, British film director Ben Wheatley made his first music clip, a spaghetti western starring Simon Smith and Tilly Gaunt, shot in one frantic day in Almería, Spain, on the old sets from Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West.

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