New Keane single
08-08-08, 03:26 PM
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New Keane single
Keane is offering a free download of their new single at their website. Well, actually you'll have to enter your email address for the link.
www.keanemusic.com
I dig it: pretty catchy.
www.keanemusic.com
I dig it: pretty catchy.
08-09-08, 08:40 AM
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It is catchy, but I doubt I would have recognized it as Keane. That doesn't give me a great feeling about the upcoming album, and I'm a big fan of the first two (as well as most of the "B-sides" on the EPs).
08-09-08, 10:55 AM
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God, this is awful. Keane has just so lost it. Yes, it reminds one of a mid-80's ABC type of tune but executed very poorly and blandly.
Sad to see a band who released one of the classic/brilliant album debuts of this decade (Hopes and Fears) - followed by a lackluster sophomore album - and now 'spiralling' even farther down the pop culture hole.
This new single choice and decision to release it gratis strategy will certainly flop.
AARGH!
Sad to see a band who released one of the classic/brilliant album debuts of this decade (Hopes and Fears) - followed by a lackluster sophomore album - and now 'spiralling' even farther down the pop culture hole.
This new single choice and decision to release it gratis strategy will certainly flop.
AARGH!
08-10-08, 07:46 AM
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. . . Sad to see a band who released one of the classic/brilliant album debuts of this decade (Hopes and Fears) - followed by a lackluster sophomore album - and now 'spiralling' even farther down the pop culture hole. . .
08-10-08, 04:21 PM
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I think right now, Keane are at a point where they have to evolve, or turn into 3 Doors Down/Matchbox 20. It's just like Coldplay's last album divided a lot of fans because some people wished it was another ARUBTTH, but they had to evolve to remain relevant. Keane's formula worked on the first album, but the second album was disappointing to a lot of people. A new sound and a new producer is just what the doctor ordered. You already have Mariah Carey and Nickelback if you want to hear the same album you bought three years ago, and two years before that, and two years before that.
08-11-08, 01:48 PM
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First of all, thanks to Draven6593 for giving us the link. I'm a member of Keane's email list, and they recently send out a newsletter telling us to "watch for a surprise", but they didn't elaborate.
As for the song... I hated it the first time I listened to it. But then I listened to it again. And again. And again. It's pretty catchy, even if it's not what I'd think of when you say the name "Keane".
I guess I agree with nothingfails: Keane has to evolve one way or another. If they didn't, I'd probably be in here bitching about how their new album sounds just like "Hopes and Fears" (great album though it is).
As for the song... I hated it the first time I listened to it. But then I listened to it again. And again. And again. It's pretty catchy, even if it's not what I'd think of when you say the name "Keane".
I guess I agree with nothingfails: Keane has to evolve one way or another. If they didn't, I'd probably be in here bitching about how their new album sounds just like "Hopes and Fears" (great album though it is).
10-07-08, 12:43 PM
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I hated the song at first. But like it now.
Update: I just listened to the album via the link above. And upon first listen, I thought it was terrible.
Gone are the subtle and nice melodies from their first two albums. Everything is so forced and overproduced.
The lead singer doesn't even sound the same. The only two tracks that are remotely close to the same
sound as anything they've done before are the final two songs. And if you thought the first single was bad,
just wait until you hear track #3, "Better Than This". How that got past the demo stage is beyond me.
Just an awful song. Look, I'm all for evolving. But you don't completely abandon your signature style
and sound. I have a feeling this album will alienate and turn off half if not more of their fans.
Update: I just listened to the album via the link above. And upon first listen, I thought it was terrible.
Gone are the subtle and nice melodies from their first two albums. Everything is so forced and overproduced.
The lead singer doesn't even sound the same. The only two tracks that are remotely close to the same
sound as anything they've done before are the final two songs. And if you thought the first single was bad,
just wait until you hear track #3, "Better Than This". How that got past the demo stage is beyond me.
Just an awful song. Look, I'm all for evolving. But you don't completely abandon your signature style
and sound. I have a feeling this album will alienate and turn off half if not more of their fans.
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10-08-08, 01:00 PM
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10-08-08, 01:54 PM
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10-08-08, 03:36 PM
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the album is terrible, barely got through track #4...totally agree with Daytripper except for the part of liking the song now....
10-08-08, 04:45 PM
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I do believe this album could be career suicide for Keane. The British music buying public are far less forgiving and more fickle than us Yanks. And I'm actually quite anxious to hear how this is greeted by their music critics. File this under: what the fuck were they thinking!?
10-09-08, 11:37 AM
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I do believe this album could be career suicide for Keane. The British music buying public are far less forgiving and more fickle than us Yanks. And I'm actually quite anxious to hear how this is greeted by their music critics. File this under: what the fuck were they thinking!?
10-09-08, 12:31 PM
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I do believe this album could be career suicide for Keane. The British music buying public are far less forgiving and more fickle than us Yanks. And I'm actually quite anxious to hear how this is greeted by their music critics. File this under: what the fuck were they thinking!?
10-09-08, 06:09 PM
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I like the new cd and I'm a BIG FAN of theres. I had to listen to the cd 2 times before I really started to get into it. Although 1 or 2 of the songs sound like remix versions . I would still rate the cd a Solid B
10-09-08, 10:06 PM
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The album. "Hopes and Fears" is brilliant, an album I'll probably listen to for the rest of my life. "Under the Iron Sea" has some good tunes, as does a few of their singles (namely "Snowed Under" and "On a Day Like Today").
The new album doesn't even seem like the same band.
The new album doesn't even seem like the same band.
10-10-08, 12:17 AM
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The album. "Hopes and Fears" is brilliant, an album I'll probably listen to for the rest of my life. "Under the Iron Sea" has some good tunes, as does a few of their singles (namely "Snowed Under" and "On a Day Like Today").
The new album doesn't even seem like the same band.
The new album doesn't even seem like the same band.
10-12-08, 08:26 PM
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Just found this. The NME review. Yeah, just as I suspected.
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Oct 10, 2008
Reviewing Keane is always a tricky business. Any sort of faint praise and we get our hands cut off for being traitors to the punk rock cause, but if we give them a proper bashing we’re boorish and predictable. There’s no denying that they’ve had more hits than most, but that’s like judging how many Nobel Prizes you’ve won in comparison to Barry Chuckle: it’s meaningless.
So what have they pulled out of the bag this time? Shite all. This is the same as every other Keane album, so don’t be fooled into thinking they’re reformed characters because of that confusingly funky ’80s-style single. It’s the first track and it’s all downhill after that (insert ‘Spiralling’ pun here). OK, so it worked for Mystery Jets, and now people don’t think they live in a commune and eat out of bins anymore, but somehow Keane just make it all sound sinister. There’s a song called ‘Black Burning Heart’, for God’s sake. And another one called ‘Love Is The End’. Musically, they’ve ripped off swathes of things contemporary and popular to make them ‘hip’, but it just feels like some dodgy old guy at a bus stop telling you he digs Klaxons. “I absolutely do not care what is considered to be fashionable or cool or tasteful – it’s much more about following our own instincts,” bleats Tim Rice-Waterhouse-Oxley or whatever the fuck he’s called. That’s fine, granddad. We’re not listening.
Rebecca Robinson
Rating: 2 out of 10
Perfect Symmetry
Oct 10, 2008
Reviewing Keane is always a tricky business. Any sort of faint praise and we get our hands cut off for being traitors to the punk rock cause, but if we give them a proper bashing we’re boorish and predictable. There’s no denying that they’ve had more hits than most, but that’s like judging how many Nobel Prizes you’ve won in comparison to Barry Chuckle: it’s meaningless.
So what have they pulled out of the bag this time? Shite all. This is the same as every other Keane album, so don’t be fooled into thinking they’re reformed characters because of that confusingly funky ’80s-style single. It’s the first track and it’s all downhill after that (insert ‘Spiralling’ pun here). OK, so it worked for Mystery Jets, and now people don’t think they live in a commune and eat out of bins anymore, but somehow Keane just make it all sound sinister. There’s a song called ‘Black Burning Heart’, for God’s sake. And another one called ‘Love Is The End’. Musically, they’ve ripped off swathes of things contemporary and popular to make them ‘hip’, but it just feels like some dodgy old guy at a bus stop telling you he digs Klaxons. “I absolutely do not care what is considered to be fashionable or cool or tasteful – it’s much more about following our own instincts,” bleats Tim Rice-Waterhouse-Oxley or whatever the fuck he’s called. That’s fine, granddad. We’re not listening.
Rebecca Robinson
Rating: 2 out of 10