Perfect Symmetry

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Chapman, Tegan (13 January 2005). "Keane man on success, songs and Steve Lamacq". Great Reporter. Archived from the original on 3 September 2005 . Retrieved 11 August 2006. The album's eleventh song "Love Is the End" was featured on the 18th episode from the sixth season of the series One Tree Hill. [13] Perfect Symmetry World Tour [ edit ]

Perfect Symmetry won't make converts, and it will never be listed as a classic. But somewhere, in the darkest of nights, someone will find comfort and a spark of something worth holding onto here. Such banal power may be trivial in the scheme of modern culture, but somehow that matters not. It's still a force for good. Keane cancel N. American tour". KeaneMusic.com. 9 August 2006. Archived from the original on 7 October 2007 . Retrieved 8 September 2006. With the release of their first major single, Keane began to achieve recognition in the United Kingdom and the United States. Archive". keanemusic.com. 31 July 2008. Archived from the original on 4 August 2008 . Retrieved 31 July 2008. After listening to Rice-Oxley's piano playing during a weekend at Virginia Water, Surrey, in 1997, Chris Martin invited him to join his newly formed band Coldplay. However, Rice-Oxley declined because he did not want to leave The Lotus Eaters, stating "I was seriously interested, but Keane were already operational and Coldplay's keyboard player idea was dropped." [11] Because of Martin's offer, and although Hughes and Scott were originally opposed to it, Chaplin joined the band in 1997, taking Rice-Oxley's place as vocalist and adding himself as the acoustic guitarist. Chaplin's recruitment also marked a change of name from the Lotus Eaters to Cherry Keane after a friend of Chaplin's mother, whom Rice-Oxley and Chaplin knew when they were young. At her death from cancer, [16] she had left money for Chaplin's family. Chaplin commented: "I used some of the money to see me through the harder times with the music." The name was shortened to Keane soon afterward. [17]Copsey, Rob (13 October 2018). "The UK's Top 40 biggest studio albums of time". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 18 September 2019. Ayers, Michael (26 February 2010). "Keane Boarding the Night Train This May". Billboard . Retrieved 26 February 2010. Post-release, the band released singles from the album " Bedshaped," " This Is the Last Time" (a version with Island Records) and " Bend and Break" on 16 August, 22 November, and 25 July 2005, respectively. Cashmere, Tim. "Keane Undercover Music Interviews". Archived from the original on 21 August 2006 . Retrieved 19 August 2006. was a hard year for Keane. All recording or live performances were stopped, and Scott's feeling of going nowhere was starting to tell on Rice-Oxley and Chaplin. [15] In December, Keane returned to performing live. [20] One gig at the Betsey Trotwood in London was attended by Simon Williams of Fierce Panda Records, the same man who had discovered Coldplay years previously. Williams offered to release the first commercial single by the band. This release was " Everybody's Changing", which Steve Lamacq named single of the week on Lamacq Live on 14 April 2003, and came out as a CD single on 12 May. [26]

We believe we are progressing, that all our efforts to build stuff, our science and technology, distinctively human, are the signs we are going in the right path. We are actually not. Andy Bennett, Jon Stratton (eds.), Britpop and the English Music Tradition, Ashgate Publishing, p. 164. Drowned in Sound gave it 5 out of 10, accusing Keane of excessively imitating Coldplay (specifically comparing "Your Eyes Open" and "On a Day Like Today" with, respectively, "Daylight" and "Politik" on the band's album A Rush of Blood to the Head), criticising the album as being "stylistically all over the place" and its lyrics as being "immature" and "cringe-worthy". However, it gave credit to the album's "fine moments", praising lead single " Somewhere Only We Know" as "breathtaking". [32] Future Releases on Triple A (AAA) Radio Stations, Independent Artist Song Releases |". Allaccess.com . Retrieved 14 December 2012. Video: 'Silenced by the Night' on 'Kimmel' ". Rolling Stone. 13 March 2012 . Retrieved 13 March 2012.Keane: 'We've always been an alternative band' – NME". NME. 15 May 2012 . Retrieved 5 October 2018. In September 2023, the band announced they would undertake a tour of the UK, Europe and the Americas in 2024 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hopes and Fears. The tour will commence in May, coinciding with the album's reissue, and continue on into September. [72] Collaborations [ edit ]

Tom announces new Christmas album! – Tom Chaplin". Tomchaplinmusic.com. 13 October 2017 . Retrieved 22 December 2017. Heawood, Sophie (27 March 2009). "Keane are cool at last: touring Brazil with the boys". The Times. London. On 10 May 2010, Keane released the EP titled Night Train which, on 16 May became their fourth number 1 album in the UK. Night Train was recorded during the Perfect Symmetry World Tour. The band first named this record as a mini-album, then that changed to an EP. In an interview, Tim Rice-Oxley said that Night Train is "pretty much an album". Recording for the band's next release began on 28 October 2000. [20] At the start of 2001, Rice-Oxley and Hughes disclosed that the main recording would be " Wolf at the Door," and that it would be completed soon. [20] The band gave progress updates. Hughes recorded drums in late January, and the final recording session was in February. [20] Mixing took place in April. [20] The single was released in June, and only 50 copies are known to have been made, using unlabeled CD-Rs. [21] Tom Chaplin – lead vocals (1997–2014, 2018–present), guitar (1997–2001, 2006–2011, 2022–present), keyboards (2006–2008)In January 2004, Keane was named the band most likely to achieve success in the coming year in the BBC's Sound of 2004 poll; additionally, this year is popularly referred to as one of the best years for new British music. [29] James Blunt records the biggest selling album of decade". Press Office. BBC. 29 December 2009 . Retrieved 27 July 2015. The single " Disconnected" was released on 20 April 2012 in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, [50] with the official worldwide release on 8 October 2012. The single " Sovereign Light Café" was released on 23 July 2012. The video was filmed in Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex, England.

In an interview conducted in late 2017 with a correspondent from The Sun, Tom Chaplin stated that he felt that he was too old to reform and relaunch the band. [59] He recorded a solo album titled The Wave, released on 14 October 2016. [60] He released follow-up Christmas-themed second album Twelve Tales of Christmas on 17 November 2017. [61] Rice-Oxley and Quin continued side project Mt. Desolation, releasing the album When the Night Calls on 25 May 2018. [62]KEANE | Archive | Keane News, Blogs, Photos, Behind the scenes video, User comments and Tour announcements | Won't Be Broken to be next single". Keanemusic.com. 13 December 2013. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013 . Retrieved 10 May 2014. Dominic Scott decided to leave the band in July, [20] a month after "Wolf at the Door" was released, to continue his studies at the LSE. [20] Rice-Oxley referenced this departure in " This Is the Last Time," which was being rehearsed in May, according to Hughes. [20] Tim Rice-Oxley and Dominic Scott were the main writers of the band's songs during their early years. When Scott left in 2001, Rice-Oxley became the main composer. [75] However, Rice-Oxley credits the rest of the band on all compositions, so that royalties for song credits are shared. [75] On 17 May 2019, Keane released an EP titled Retroactive EP1 featuring "our favourite archived live performances, older demos and random treasures". [65] [66] On 6 June 2019, the band released the first new single from Cause and Effect, titled "The Way I Feel". [ citation needed]