Keane

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Keane is an English piano rock band that consists of Tim Rice-Oxley (Bass and Piano), Tom Chaplin (lead vocalist) and Richard Hughes (Drums). The band is famous for using pianos as their lead instruments instead of guitars which makes them different from other bands.

The bands previous album Hope and Fears (2004) and Under the Iron Sea (2006) have sold over 5 million and 2 million albums respectively worldwide. With such hits as “Somewhere only we know” and “is it any wonder”. Their third album entitled “Perfect Symmetry”. The first single from this album is “spiralling”. The single has had more than 500, 000 downloads in less than a week since its release.

Tom Chaplin remembers "hearing it for the first time and wondering if it was about me. But then, that's a quality that Tim's best songs have. They feel personal to your situation, but then, when you take them out onto the road you realise that's how everyone feels." Tom remembers feeling a similar kinship with the sentiments of In Your Own Time. "Straight away," he smiles, "On a personal level, I was itching to sing it."

Here and on so much of 'Strangeland', we find ourselves in the company of adults attempting to make sense of their present situation. Life gets better, the human attachments you make grow deeper and, along the way, ambitions are realised. Lest we forget, ten years ago, Keane without a record deal, living and rehearsing in a shared space in Tottenham. At one point Tim even tried to raise extra cash by taking part in a medical drug trial. So why does unalloyed euphoria feel so much more attainable in the idealistic throes of youth, when there's so little to lose? Out of that paradox grew not just 'Sovereign Light Café' and 'The Starting Line'. "Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time," exhorts Tom Chaplin on the latter, with a vocal that all but lacerates the heart-strings. Albeit in a very different way, 'On The Road' is borne of similar sentiments, a reminder that to succumb to a fear of the unknown is to deny the very things that make life worth living. You only need to hear the way the first verse cannons into a dizzyingly euphoric chorus to realise that Keane have delivered one of the festival anthems of the summer.