It’s just a shame then that so much of the rest of the record is as wet as an English summer. ![]() But the highlight is the jangly “On the Road” which sounds like it could have been transported from mid-period Simple Minds. And then there’s a nice change of mood on “Black Rain” where Dan Grech’s production combines with Chaplin’s voice to create an unlikely echo of Radiohead. So I was excited to play, the successfully crowdfunded debut by. It’s becoming increasingly rare these days due to how time-consuming it is to produce, but seeing it always makes me feel comfortably nostalgic for the classic cartoons I grew up watching. In particular, four songs are pretty endearing.“Sovereign Light Café” and “Day Will Come” share the kind of shameless infectiousness that Coldplay have built their career on. The hollowness of Strangeland’s I’m-okay-you’re-okay writing might be a more forgivable offense were the album’s production not so consistently garish.Working with Dan Grech-Marguerat, Keane look to split the difference between the piano-driven, MOR sound of their first two albums and the late-‘80s style of Perfect Symmetry. I’m a sucker for traditional hand-drawn 2D animation. The problem is that there just isn't enough emotion you can believe in, meaning that half the tracks come over a little Snow Patrol-lite. Still, Tom Chaplin’s cherubic vocals, perched over these spacious arrangements do have a certain sweeping quality and the album's expansive keyboard sound harks back to the heyday of Eighties stadium rock. And songs like "Silenced by the Night" sound as if they could have been written by their accountant. Strangeland is a esoterically beautiful album at once empowering and yet simultaneously melancholic and self-reflective. ![]() Keanes 2013 compilation album, The Best of Keane, features their biggest hits, 'Somewhere Only We Know,' 'Everybodys Changing,' and 'Is It Any Wonder' as well as two new songs written during the Strangeland era, 'Higher Than The Sun,' and 'Wont Be Broken. The band claim it’s like “a 3D return” to the sound of their debut. With Keanes fourth full studio album Keane returned to a more anthem-fuelled style fans will be highly aware of if they have followed Keane as a band since their inception. Your entire order will ship on or near: 7/1 Available for the first time on vinyl. And when they announced with this year's follow up, the consensus was that their main problem would simply be the lingering issue of brand image.īut, disappointingly, Strangeland simply takes things right back to square one.
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