Keane’s Spiralling Success

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.