Keane - Hopes and Fears
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Artist: KeaneEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-05-25
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- Somewhere Only We Know
- This Is the Last Time
- Bend and Break
- We Might as Well Be Strangers
- Everybody's Changing
- Your Eyes Open
- She Has No Time
- Can't Stop Now
- Sunshine
- Untitled 1
- Bedshaped
Music reviews of Hopes and Fears
Music Review: Renewed my faith in quality British pop music.
Rating: 5 Stars
Anyone who spends any time with me knows that tho I'm a bit of a music snob (mouths shut), I also have pretty eclectic taste. I was also one of the few New Yorkers to shun the whole lo-fi garage rock thing. My feeling is, pop and rock music should include, oh I dont know...melody. There was some weird taking-pride-in-lack-of-songwriting-skill that I hate, that being the main reason I can't stand Punk music. So when bands like Coldplay (for which even mentioning that they are always compared to has become ubiquitous) and Travis began worrming their way back into the mainsteam, no one was happier than I to have the melody return to pop music.
And then I heard the Keane record.
Keane are a three piece band consisting of bass, drums and piano. The lack of a lead guitar gives the group a more restrained sound less inclined to veer off toward the power chord moments.
The first three songs solidly land "Hopes And Fears" amongst the most cherished of albums in the realm of music. Solid hooks, soaring choruses, lyrics both simple and heartfelt and production worthy of the songwriting. "Somewhere Only We Know" begins with a hook that would only make any sense on keyboards (check The Killers "Indie Rock `n' Roll" for a similar riff that comes off a lot harsher on guitar) and continues through a chorus that will be in your head for days.
The next track, "This is the Last Time" is one of those soaring songs that you just want to crank up and spin and sing along to at maximum volume. In serious contention, it uses its simple octave bassline and Tom Chaplin's amazing voice to churn up a slice of massive shimmering U2-meets-"Friday I'm In Love" that can only be described as majestic.
And so it goes for 11 tracks, some ballads, some weaker than others, but overall this is one of the strongest records of quite some time.
Description of Hopes and Fears
It's perhaps inevitable that Keane's debut album, Hopes and Fears, will draw numerous comparisons to Coldplay. Like them, Keane were discovered by indie label Fierce Panda, who released a single ("Everybody's Changing"). And, like Coldplay, Keane also do a fine trade in catchy and heartfelt indie-pop, all bruised verses and soaring choruses. But though their sound is sure to please fans of Coldplay and Travis, the reality is that Keane manage to sound that little bit more delicate. This could be due to the band's relatively unusual makeup: rather than guitars, the trio uses a piano.At its best, Hopes and Fears is reminiscent of Bends-era Radiohead, and singer Tom Chaplin's voice is closer to Thom Yorke's falsetto than Chris Martin's cracked whine. On tracks such as the hit single, "Somewhere Only We Know" they manage to squeeze an epic-sounding poignancy from their stripped-down sound (a lot of this is due to the album's superb production). Across 10 tracks, all this slow-burning melancholy skates a bit close to self-indulgence, and you can't help but wish they'd rock out a bit. But Hopes and Fears is still a remarkable and surprisingly mature debut album from a young band with a bright future. --Robert Burrow
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