Keane "Silenced By the Night", new album "Strangeland" + UK Tour Dates
Keane will release their debut single 'Silenced By The Night' on 30th April 2012, taken from their fourth studio album titled 'Strangeland', released on 7th May 2012, through Island Records. Keane performed the worldwide premier of the single on Monday's Jimmy Kimmel show in Los Angeles. As a long-time supporter when he discovered the band are making their debut appearance at this year's SXSW Festival, he immediately booked them for the first performance of the new song. Keane 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. There are certain songs on 'Strangeland' which, at a stroke, are unmistakably, quintessentially Keane, a real once-heard, never-forgotten moment. 'Silenced By The Night' is one of those songs, an emotionally driven anthem, boasting a hook so huge you could raise the Titanic with it. The redemptive declamations of 'Silenced By The Night' is the first clue in the series of songs on this album that tells us what this body of work is about. It is yet another example of Keane’s ability to alchemise complicated emotions into songs of deceptive simplicity, that fantastic unidentifiable thing that distinguishes a good song from a great one. Your thoughts immediately turn to indisputable Keane classics like ‘Somewhere Only We Know’, ‘Everybody’s Changing’, ‘Is It Any Wonder?’, ‘The Night Sky’ and ‘Spiralling’. To that list will surely add a few more from the new album. All are reminders that Keane have never been afraid to cast their net wide for sonic and lyrical inspiration. 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 on 9th and 10th March 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. 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."
UK TOUR DATESMay 2012
- Wednesday 23 Newcastle O2 Academy 0844 477 2000
- Thursday 24 Glasgow O2 Academy 0844 4999 990
- Friday 25 Birmingham O2 Academy 0844 477 2000
- Tuesday 29 Leeds O2 Academy 0844 477 2000
- Wednesday 30 Manchester O2 Apollo 0844 477 7677
June 2012
- Monday 04 Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall 0844 847 1776
- Tuesday 05 Bristol O2 Academy 0844 477 2000
- Wednesday 06 Leicester De Montfort Hall 0116 233 3111
- Friday 08 London O2 Brixton Academy 0844 477 2000
- Saturday 09 London O2 Brixton Academy 0844 477 2000
Keane ‘Silenced By The Night’, Single Release Date: 30th April 2012 Island Records
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