Strangeland

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'. From here on in, the other decision that Keane quickly came to was that this album would be ready when it was ready. No time-constraints. Once one song was written, it would somehow lay down a series of clues to the next one: the redemptive declamations of 'Silenced By The Night'; the spirit-swelling 'Neon River'. And so on, and so on.