To those who saw Editors on their UK tour in 2008, Mobius Band will be instantly familiar. The bond between the New York based trio of Peter Sax, Noam Schatz and Ben Sterling and the Birmingham quartet was evident on every date of that tour with the members of Editors enthusing about the album you now hold in your hands. Mobius Band and Editors first met on Editors debut US tour and, as bass player Russell Leech explains, it wasn't quite love at first sight:

"The opening band rolled up and I think managed to insult pretty much everybody within 24 hours of meeting us all. We thought that we had chosen badly. A few days later and after a great gig in Toronto we went out drinking with Mobius Band. We still didn't know how to take them, they had this intelligent, sadistic humour that was witty and quick. It took time to come round and to click but after 3 more weeks on tour we were all great friends."

That friendship led to a growing admiration from the four Editors for their new found friends music. As the band's early EP's and debut US album release "The Loving Sounds Of Static" (2005) underwent heavy rotation on the Editors tour bus discussions began about how Editors could use their position within the UK as platinum artists to get this music out to the public. Then they heard 'Heaven', and the plan became increasingly urgent as Russell remembers:

"When 'Heaven' was released the record blew us away. Our favorite track would change from week to week and we had to have the band come play the album to our fans in Europe. They went down superbly well and sold more CD's on the road than they had in total previously. It made sense for us to help out further and to put the record out."

Which is how you come to have this album in your hand. Fuelled by a dual love of the dynamic of pop songs and the possibilities of experimentation, shot through with sounds developed from Noam's passion for gutting and re-assembling toy keyboards, 'Heaven' pulses, crackles and hums through its ten tracks. Self recorded by the band with engineering assistance from Emery Dobyns (Antony and the Johnsons. Battles) and Eric Spring, the tracks came together in between these bouts of touring with Editors, Tom Vek and The National in both the USA and Europe.

"Heaven" is released on 11th May, 2009.