Back In Time

Keane is releasing a new EP on May 10 called Night Train - cool art! Tracklist:

1. House Lights
2. Back In Time
3. Stop For A Minute (feat K'Naan)
4. Clear Skies
5. Ishin Denshin (You've Got To Help Yourself) (feat Tigarah)
6. Your Love
7. Looking Back (feat K'Naan)
8. My Shadow

Keane has always been one of those bands I sense I should listen to more often given their prime spot in the Too Poppy Spectrum of Aural Goodness and yet I don't. Go figure.

Pre-order the EP now here and reserve your numbered copy of a "beautiful" limited edition digipak. Really? Beautiful? Reminds me of the day when W2P and I were members of JAM - Jewel Box Advocates and Manufacturers. The primary goal was to eliminate wasteful long boxes (despite their usefulness in postering my bedroom walls) and ensure the jewel box was the practical and most protective standard. Digpaks?! Gack.

Ah, my first foray into policy advocacy. Good times. 

The Map of My World Gets Smaller

Keane is touring Canmerica:

MAY
8 - Oakland, CA - The Fox Theater
9 - Los Angeles, CA - The Hollywood Palladium
12 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kingsbury Hall
13 - Denver, CO - The Ogden Theater
15 - Minneapolis, MN - Myth
16 - Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom
19 - Washington, DC - Constitution Hall
20 - Philadelphia, PA - Tower Theater
21 - Boston, MA - Bank of America Pavilion
23 - Toronto, ON - The Sound Academy
24 - Cleveland, OH - Tower City Amphitheater
27 - New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall

Maybe You Feel It Too

Keane's Perfect Symmetry is out today. They had me at cheap:

To celebrate the release, Amazon.com's download store are offering the entire Perfect Symmetry album for just $2.99. This offer is available until October 20th.

Boinggggg! Via Amazon MP3s

Did You Want To Be In Love?

Keane's new album is called Perfect Symmetry and will be in stores October 13. They are offering the first single Spiralling free at their site until August 11 and via paid download at most online services come August 12. So get it now.

The track features a woozy, New Wave synth groove, a repeated, Cure-style shouted "ooo" and a sternly delivered list of questions from vocalist Tom Chaplin: "Did you want to be a winner? Did you want to be an icon? Did you want to be famous? Did you want to be the President? Did you want to start a war? Did you want to have a family? Did you want to be in love?"

Sounds like Keane is branching out a bit. Jon Brion produced Perfect Symmetry, their third album, so it already has my attention.

TheirSpace

MP3: Keane - Spiralling (via official site)

I'm Fading Out, Everything I Know is Wrong

Keane's singer is exhausted addicted, just in time to celebrate the UK release of the new single (Crystal Ball) from their latest album (Under the Iron Sea). It was one of the few tracks that really stood out for me upon listening to the album the first couple of times. Amazon has the import singles if you're interested.

North American tour dates have been postponed while Tom cleans himself up. Best of luck to him.

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