Customer Rating:  
Summary: thank you, but no
Comment: Thank you Amazon, for offering this album at a special price the day it was released. I had planned on going to my local store to pick up the cd, but decided to save a few bucks instead. Glad I did. There are some good songs here, but they are obscured by an overwrought production right out of 1986. I know there's an 80's retro sound out there, but this is like "Starship" 80's, not Talking Heads. It's one of those albums you won't listen to again after the first time. This is sour bubblegum.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Better than this?
Comment: Sounds like David bowie "lets dance" on their best track spiralling, the third song better this sounds again like another Bowie-eque song "ashes to ashes", very 80's influnce synth-pop album overall, not as strong as the Iron seas album. For die hard fans get this album. Did you know that the singer is playing the guitar lead on the first track, and does it well live.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not as good as the first, but better than the second!
Comment:
What a great comeback. After their 2nd release, and hearing about the lead singer's substance abuse issues, I had nearly lost hope. But this release is fantastic. Wonderful vocals, great lyrics, and an overall great album.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good, not great
Comment: I have listened to this album about 20 times so far, and while at first I didn't care for it, upon listening to it a couple more times, it started to grow on me.
The band is growing, they are trying new things, and this is all good news. The worst thing a band can do is be stagnant and have all of their albums sound the same. A couple of tracks on the album are reminiscent of what we know and love of Keane, however the album as a whole is a different sound.
I think overall, if you enjoy the band, you will like the album and the songs, they are written well, the lyrics are powerful (as always), and the orchestration is often clever.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Appreciate the foray into unchartered waters, but...
Comment: To keep this short, I am a huge Keane fan. A lot of their fan base is drawn to their sound for their RadioHead, Coldplay, Beatles "Wall of Sound" effect they pull into their music. Their arrangements are complex and beautiful, simple but really potent. I'd suspect a lot of classical music fans also like Keane for these reasons. That said, this fan base would probably lot listen to a lot of Flock of Seagulls or Wham! records.
This album, unfortunately, is more along those lines than what I described from Keane's first two records.
Hey, I'm all for artists trying new sounds, but this one just didn't resonate with me. I found the lyrics to be pretty ridiculous, the melodies to be not very well thought-out, and most of the tracks to be pretty much unmemorable.
I'm confident their next effort will be better.
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