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Having won both critical and commercial acclaim for their debut album, HOPES AND FEARS, British band Keane pushes the hook-infested keyboard-rock on their sophomore effort in a darker, moodier direction. But UNDER THE IRON SEA features an intense, romantic brand of melancholy, with the trio of Tom Chaplin, Richard Hughes, and Tim Rice-Oxley vamping their way through vaulting rock melodies and power ballads, all without the aid of a single guitar.
There are plenty of deliciously chewy guitar-like sounds, though, that Keane achieves by feeding electric pianos and synthesizers through various effects pedals and studio gear. The album begins with the gloomy pop gem "Atlantic," in which Chaplin broods over layers of swelling synths and insistent drum work before the song resolves into a clearing of pure melody. The song showcases Chaplin's soaring vocals, which are at points as tortured as Thom Yorke's and at others smoothly reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. On "Is It Any Wonder?" the verses strut along anxiously until a barely-in-control keyboard riff winds the song up into its gleeful chorus. Filled with moving, melodic rock, Keane's solid second effort points to further sonic expansions to come.
Audio Mixer: Mark "Spike" Stent.
Keane: Richard Hughes, Tom Chaplin, Tim Rice-Oxley.
Personnel: Tom Chaplin (vocals); Andy Green (programming).
Rolling Stone (p.70) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] bigger doses of atmospheric keyboard...it offers some of the same tuneful pleasures of the debut, with big-voiced Tom Chaplin digging into his big bag of swooping choruses."
Spin (p.90) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] lovely, piano-driven sounds....UNDER THE IRON SEA boasts an embarrassment of melodic riches..."
Entertainment Weekly (p.69) - "UNDER THE IRON SEA coats the group's typically hand-wringing lyrics with layers of symphonic embellishment." -- Grade: A-
Q (p.108) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The lyrics may be downbeat, but musically there's all sorts of festival-friendly, stomach-clenching brightness..."
Q (p.126) - Ranked #6 in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums of 2006."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.100) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Opening track 'Atlantic' has dark, dreamy quality they haven't displayed hitherto, 'Broken Toy' is jazzy and swoonsome...[and] 'Hamburg Song' is a gorgeously wistful ballad..." Keane Under The Iron Sea Songs Under The Iron Sea Music Review Average Rating: (3.9 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews WOW!
GREAT ALBUM FOR ME BETTER THAN HOPES AND FEARS =) AND BOTH ARE GREAT
Submitted by GENIUS (Puerto Rico)
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Excellent work Keane!
This album is the class of album that you like to listen during your sunday afternoons. It's exciting. When i heard "The Frog Prince" for the first time...i said "This is beautiful".
Good work Keane!
Submitted by volvo740gle (Santiago de Chile, Chile)
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This album is another one of Keane's ability to affect the listeners, and everytime the songs seem to mean a little bit more. The lyrics are very intense and poetic. The melody matches perfectly the lyrics and together create some sort of magic.
Submitted by Hicham (Rabat, Morocco)
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Honestly, when I heard the song "Is It Any Wonder?" I figured the rest of the album would be that way, and I was hoping it would be that way, but when I heard the rest of the CD I couldnt be more pleased. "A Bad Dream", "Nothing in My Way", "Atlantic", "Leaving So Soon", "Put It Behind, "Crystal Ball", and "Let It Slide" are all awesome songs. It is a very good CD and there are about 9 tracks that I like a lot including "The Frog Prince" which I forgot to mention. Despite not having a guitar player, Keane is really very good. Buy it and like it.
Submitted by flautdog66 (Gary, OH, USA)
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When i heard "Is it any wonder" I thought this would be a great album,like the last one but all the other songs,are sort of the same, which are great to listen to, but I found the first album a lot Better!
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Often compared to countrymen Coldplay and Radiohead, the UK-based trio Keane plays a similarly majestic, sweeping blend of pop-informed rock music. Fueling the comparisons is the fact that lead vocalist Tom Chaplin makes heavy use of the same kind of Jeff Buckley-esque falsetto and emotion-filled wails favored by Chris Martin and Thom Yorke. On HOPES AND FEARS's epic tracks such as "She Has No Time," however, Keane takes the more dramatic elements of the aforementioned bands' sounds and magnifies them, creating piano- and synthesizer-driven cinematic soundscapes dripping with quiet heartache and existential angst. In addition, Keane incorporates minimalist trip-hop beats, which, in combination with Chaplin's strong pop melodies, evoke a male-led Portishead jamming with the Raspberries. One of the most sonically atmospheric groups of the Britpop scene, Keane ignores the notion of traditional guitar-based rock music ...
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