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KEANE ANNOUNCE FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM RELEASE
Keane will release their fourth studio album titled 'Strangeland', on 7th May 2012, through Island Records.
The band recorded 'Strangeland' with producer Dan Grech (Radiohead, The Vaccines, Howling
Bells, Lana del Rey) in the UK at Sea Fog, Ivor Novello Award winner Tim Rice-Oxley's studio.
They are calling it their most personal and honest record yet.
The British multi-million selling band are now a four piece with the addition of new member
bass player Jesse Quin who collaborated with Rice-Oxley on Mt. Desolation.
Tim Rice-Oxley recently said of the album: "'Strangeland' feels like an adventure that brings
with it different things for different people, and like any adventure is full of uncertainty, and the
potential for mishap, as well as the possibility of amazing things and glorious discoveries. I love
the idea of the journey through 'Strangeland' being a journey of redemption."
'Strangeland' tracklisting below:
1.You Are Young
2.Silenced By The Night
Disconnected
4.Watch How You Go
5.Sovereign Light Cafe
6.On The Road
7.The Starting Line
8.Black Rain
9.Neon River
10.Day Will Come
11.In Your Own Time
12.Sea Fog
Four years have elapsed since Keane’s last album ‘Perfect Symmetry’; two since ‘Night Train’,
the mini-LP which followed its three full-length predecessors to the top of the British album
charts, securing them a place in pop history. If Keane’s feverishly loyal fanbase wondered what
the group’s next album would sound like, they weren’t the only ones. In the eight years following
the release of 2004’s 9× platinum Brit award winning ‘Hopes & Fears’, every Keane album has
marked a clear progression from the previous one: the anxious emotional terrain mapped out by
‘Under The Iron Sea’; the iridescent poptimism of ‘Perfect Symmetry’ featuring the electro
charged hit song 'Spiralling', voted Q Magazine’s 2008 Song Of The Year.
On finishing the recording of the new album in February Keane announced two special shows at
the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, a location close to their hearts as it was both their teenage
haunt and near to where the album was recorded. They announced the dates in the local paper
only and within 5 minutes they were sold out. This will be the first time fans will hear new
material.
“In many respects, it feels like the completion of a circle. On the album you have songs that draw
upon the experiences we used to share as kids, growing up in Battle. You can never really go
back, of course. Once in a while though, after a good day, we’ll go to the local pub and talk about
everything and nothing until it’s time to go home. Whatever it is that makes us Keane – that
invisible glue – is still there. And you can hear it all over ‘Strangeland’.” (Richard Hughes)
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