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The Back Room is the debut album by British post-punk revival band Editors, released on 25 July 2005. It entered the UK Album Charts at #13 in July 2005, before peaking at #2 in January 2006. It was produced by Jim Abbiss. The album was nominated for the 2006 Mercury Prize. A limited special two-disc edition of The Back Room was released in the United Kingdom, the second disc (called Cuttings) comprising unused tracks from the album recording sessions and B-sides. In the Netherlands and Germany, the album was re-released in a limited, Festival Edition CD/DVD set including a 50-minute concert recorded at Paradiso in Amsterdam, on 30 January 2006. Editors received substantial critical acclaim for their release of The Back Room. NME gave it a rating of 8/10 saying "Never before have doom and gloom sounded so surprisingly uplifting and hopeful" and that Editors "have created a debut that will endure." Drowned in Sound gave The Back Room a rating of 9/10, citing, "this is a record many people will be able to live inside for a very long time." The album also received a 2006 Mercury Prize nomination. The song "Munich" was featured on the Xbox 360 game Saints Row, as well as on the multi platform game FIFA Street 2. The Back Room received generally positive reviews with metacritic score of 76 based on 23 reviews. E! Online has written that it's "a fine album that proves you can look backward while paving the way forward", giving an album score 91 of 100. Drowned in Sound has wri
