A great album. It couldn't be a better addition to their discography. More grown up than Hopes and Fears, yet it still has that great Keane feeling. This is going to be very hard for Keane to follow on from. Some of the songs do take a bit of getting into as they are not all easy listening, but they do all have a great meaning to them and you can listen to words and be reminded of some time in your life, something that happened or that someone special. All the songs are instantly recognisable as being a 'Keane' song, yet they are all totally independant of each other and each one makes you feel totally different thoughts and feel different emotions, than the others did.
Overall, the album is fantastic, even down to the pull out album sleeve, with the magnificant art work. Each part of the art work on the sleeve pull out referes to different songs on the album, which makes you think that Keane are trying to tell a story, most probably about their rise to success and their journey to get there.
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Advantages: Can be played over and over, songs never grow old Disadvantages: Slightly different sound to previous album if you're expecting lots of piano
Advantages: A few good tracks/ trying something different Disadvantages: Very slow/ lyrics
spoilt_little_br 03.08.2006 (03.08.2006)
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Review of Under the Iron Sea - Keane
Advantages: A few good tracks/ trying something different Disadvantages: Very slow/ lyrics
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