| Honesty | |
| Cover: | Editors Honesty cover 320.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Editors |
| Album: | The Weight of Your Love |
| Released: | 25 November 2013 |
| Recorded: | 2013 |
| Genre: | Alternative rock |
| Length: | 4:49 |
| Label: | PIAS Records |
| Producer: | Jacquire King |
| Prev Title: | Formaldehyde |
| Prev Year: | 2013 |
| Next Title: | Sugar |
| Next Year: | 2014 |
"Honesty" is a song by British post-punk revival band Editors. It was released digitally on 25 November 2013, as the third single to promote the band's fourth studio album, The Weight of Your Love.[1]
"Honesty" was written by Edward Lay, Russell Leetch, Justin Lockey, Tom Smith and Elliott Williams.[2] The song is a "string-driven midtempo ballad,"[3] and "a soaring, vulnerable number complete with Tom Smith's signature baritone vocals- and a touch of falsetto. The atmospheric track continues to build in momentum as it proceeds, telling the familiar tale of a broken heart atop an anthemic chorus, dramatic drums and spectacular strings."[4]
A music video for the song, directed by Favourite Colour: Black,[5] was released on 21 October 2013.[6] It was filmed on 20 September 2013 around Soho and Shaftesbury Avenue in London. It features "a hen party, a young streetwise girl and a scary-looking vagrant." "It's all shot from my point of view, and I kind of encounter all these 'undesirables' along the way," said Editors' frontman Tom Smith in an interview with XFM.[7]
| Peak position | ||
| Poland (ZPAV)[8] | 38 |
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