Under the Iron Sea
Keane
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
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| 1 | Atlantic | Keane | 4:13 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Is It Any Wonder? | Keane | 3:06 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Nothing In My Way | Keane | 4:00 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Leaving So Soon? | Keane | 3:59 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | A Bad Dream | Keane | 5:04 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Hamburg Song | Keane | 4:37 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Put It Behind You | Keane | 3:36 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | The Iron Sea | Keane | 2:56 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Crystal Ball | Keane | 3:53 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Try Again | Keane | 4:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 11 | Broken Toy | Keane | 6:07 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 12 | The Frog Prince | Keane | 4:22 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 13 | Let It Slide | Keane | 4:10 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 14 | Video Atlantic - Live from ULU [5/5/06] | Keane | 3:56 | $1.49 | View In iTunes |
| Booklet Interactive Booklet - Under the Iron Sea | Keane | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| Total: 15 Items |
iTunes Review
It’s hard to fathom that Keane is a guitar-less trio. Their drums-bass-keyboards approach is so ornate, lush, and atmospheric that their every tune turns into a pocket symphony rife with melodrama. That they could approach this grand mastery without the usual six-string culprit is a singular achievement. This East Sussex, UK trio have never met a special effect they couldn’t twist to their advantage and their second studio album, Under the Iron Sea, utilizes their sonic expertise to massive effect. In the tradition of early Radiohead (before they became an art project), Coldplay, and U2 (for whom they opened on tour), Keane combine this profound love for ambient atmospherics with song emphasizing fancy melodies that push singer Tom Chaplin’s voice all over the scale. The unexpected success of their debut album – two Brit awards, a Grammy nomination, actual record sales – stressed the band to the near breaking-up point and that tension, along with a deteriorating world situation, fuels the melancholic strains of “Leaving So Soon?,” “A Bad Dream” and “Hamburg Song.”
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Life changing
by Luko12Reading though these reviews, I remembered why I don't like to read music reviews. Of all the media forms, I believe music is the most subjective. It really comes down to the way one's brain is wired, the events transpiring in their lives, and their general willingness to listen. Hopes and Fears was an album that only truly impacted me after UTIS. UTIS changed the way I listened to music. It came out during a difficult time in my life, and the lyrics and sounds struck me very powerfully. It was the first album I ever listened to from start to finish, as if the album were one entire song seperated into individual parts. I can't listen to it any other way, and the songs blend into each other in such a way that they create a picture of misery and confusion so perfectly. Atlantic (one of my favorite songs of all time), starts out slowly (the day's beginning) and transitions into some faster paced songs. As you hit the middle of the album, it gets dark. I think the lowest point they reach is the song "The Iron Sea", which on the American album is just the second half to "Put it behind you". The entire song sounds like a submarine sinking in water, or drowing in an iron sea. I've never heard anything like it. And naturally Crystal Ball is sort of a release from that, and beyond that the album pleateus out.
Now a hundred people will see these songs in a hundred different ways. What's important to realize is that this isn't bad music by any means. This album used to level me, emotionally. It got me through college. I've cried histerally to it. And sometimes it's not about the lyrics or the meaning. It's just about the sound it makes in my ears. The overall cadence of the album blows me away. For years it was beyond the best album I'd ever listened to.
Perfect Symmetry didn't work for me, except for a few songs. I have this theory that I only like miserable Keane, and that happy Keane loses the flair. The second they start talking to me about how I should feel, I don't care anymore. UTIS was about THEIR emotions, and it wasn't pointing fingers. It was "this is how I feel, maybe you can relate". In this way I think it was their license to let us choose the meaning for ourselves, which is ultimitely a choice any band has to make - to let their music be misinterpreted by the masses. It was written during a time when the band almost broke up. Similar to Kid A/Amnesiac after OK Computer (see: Radiohead), it was Tim's reaction to the success of Hopes and Fears, and the struggle that goes along with popularity. It was about almost losing it. And if Tim read what I just wrote he might disagree on the details, but the point is that it was written during a tough time, and for anyone going through a tough time this album might speak to you in the same way it spoke to me.
/equip flame suit. Flame on, but it's good music, and it will always be their best album to me.
Hmmm
by Calbv319Just wondering if you like keane is it really possible to not like coldplay
soo good
by spursfan2690shades of coldplay and u2...2 of my favorite bands...crystal ball is my favorite keane song of all time....great underappreciated band,
Biography
Formed: 1997 in East Battle, Sussex, England
Genre: Alternative
Years Active: '90s, '00s
Top Albums and Songs by Keane
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
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| 1 | Somewhere Only We Know | Hopes and Fears | 3:56 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Is It Any Wonder? | Under the Iron Sea | 3:06 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Everybody's Changing | Hopes and Fears | 3:35 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Somewhere Only We Know | Somewhere Only We Know - EP | 3:58 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Bend & Break | Hopes and Fears | 3:40 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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- $9.99
- Genres: Alternative, Music, Pop, Britpop, Rock, Adult Alternative
- Released: Jun 12, 2006
- ℗ 2006 Universal Island Records Ltd. A Universal Music Company.
