Keane is back with a reverberating album in “Perfect Symmetry” now topping the Billboards Album Chart at No. 7 and I expect it to remain somewhere within that sphere for many weeks to come.
In 2004, this English band gained worldwide accolade for the catchy and ultra-melodic “Everybody’s Changing” and from that moment on, the band never looked back and gained more and more success.
Honestly, I thought so little at first about this band from East Sussex, relegating them merely and probably as one of those one-hit wonders that had just got lucky with one very inspired composition. I even thought then that Tom Chaplin’s voice was just one of those Bono wanna-be’s that tries to imitate the inimitable voice of the U2 frontman.
But lately, things have changed. I am greatly engrossed by Keane and the music they permeate, sounding so proficient and deep like they’ve been out there for decades among the great rock bands of all time. And Tom Chaplin’s exudes that forceful confidence that’s definitive throughout “Perfect Symmetry”, a kind of feel-good exuberance that becomes imbibing to the listeners, especially when most of the songs in the album embark upon the subject of love and emotion, piano-driven love songs as they are called, and probably Keane could be forgiven for being silly almost all the time, as they could be just among a few modern rock bands that is able to extrapolate on those silly topics so extraneously and then be excused afterwards.
In “The Lovers Are Losing”, Keane sings a winning melody that could rack up admiration all over again, just like it did in “Everybody’s Changing”, serenading the listeners with a wicked keyboards intro that’s leaves a very good mark. Another promising song is “Better Than This’, very catchy and inspiring.
And listening to the whole album is like being in one very enjoyable ride, through desert highways and immaculate interstate avenues, as the wind kisses the sunlit horizon so silently.
I just thought Keane’s new album is just perfect for the car stereo, when I never really thought before that there is some kind of music that is just perfect while one is driving or riding in a car.
In the latest single “Spiralling”, Keane introduces itself so loudly and so eloquently and the song itself has just that, a very enticing intro that make the heart stomp and the feet move in lively rhythm.
Listen to Keane’s “Spiralling”:
Keane's Album : "Perfect Symmetry" -
Rating: 8 out of 1o.
Good review Major Tom. I always liked Keane's music. I'll check the album out but your rating of 8/10 makes me not even think twice of buying the CD
Just last week I bought Journey's new CD/DVD pack
( featuring Arnel Pineda) - 2 CD's of new and retro music and DVD of their Vegas concert for $11.95. I thought it was a steal
Comment by bw — October 29, 2008 @ 11:01 pm
Wonderful music...only 8/10?
Comment by Sidney — October 30, 2008 @ 11:28 am
oh, i love Keane! will look for this new album. thanks for sharing!
Comment by ipanema — October 30, 2008 @ 1:25 pm
cool!
do you have a favorite local band?
Comment by barrycade — October 30, 2008 @ 11:27 pm
they're quite good right enough and I prefer them to Snow Patrol ; their songs are very catchy, like somewhere Only we Know.
Comment by pining — October 30, 2008 @ 11:56 pm
To BW: Do check it out bro, I am sure you gonna like its easy going but well-crafted new wavish numbers.
Comment by Major Tom — October 31, 2008 @ 10:02 am
To Sidney: It's good that you ask, I was really thinking of giving it a 9 but 8 is the highest I've given so far. I feel like I am reserving the 9's and the 10's to really excellent work, the once in a while kind of thing, like perhaps U2's "The Joshua Tree" or Pink Floyd's "The Wall"...
Comment by Major Tom — October 31, 2008 @ 10:05 am
To ipanema: Keane is just one those bands that has the potential to be so big in the coming years...
Comment by Major Tom — October 31, 2008 @ 10:06 am
To Barrycade: Oh, lots of em but most especially Eraserheads and The Dawn, also Rivermaya, bands that had spurred this latest golden age in local music...
Comment by Major Tom — October 31, 2008 @ 10:07 am
To Pining: That too (Somewhere Only We Know), although I just fogot to mention it, being one of their biggest hit, next only to "Everybody's Changing"...
Comment by Major Tom — October 31, 2008 @ 10:09 am
hmmm....makabili nga niyan. mukhang maganda.
Comment by Atticus — November 2, 2008 @ 2:27 am
To be honest, I don't know this artist
! But will try to check him on youtube 
! Thanks for featuring this otherwise I won't discover him co'z I am trying to know French artists...BTW, you're tag!
Comment by haze — November 2, 2008 @ 5:14 am
Hey great music!! I must have been living under a rock when I was in the UK since I've not heard of this group before! I think my friends there were to caught up with Britain's Got Talent..hehe...
Comment by Gypsy — November 2, 2008 @ 11:14 pm
To Atticus: You'll enjoy it with your rides into beautiful places...
Comment by Major Tom — November 4, 2008 @ 12:08 am
To Haze: They're a relatively new act from England but steadily gaining international success. The rock critics just love these guys...
Comment by Major Tom — November 4, 2008 @ 12:09 am
To Gypsy: I think they were is some form of hiatus while the time you were there last year, now after nearly a year, they release these very great album.
Comment by Major Tom — November 4, 2008 @ 12:10 am