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Keane, Under the Iron Sea

Audio CD

Disk ID: 54285

Disk length: 50m 32s (11 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2006

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Atlantic 4:13
2. Is It Any Wonder? 3:06
3. Nothing in My Way 4:00
4. Leaving So Soon? 3:59
5. A Bad Dream 5:06
6. Hamburg Song 4:37
7. Put It Behind You 6:33
8. Crystal Ball 3:53
9. Try Again 4:27
10. Broken Toy 6:07
11. The Frog Prince 4:22

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Review

If U2 hadn't already released a pair of career retrospective discs, this British trio's second album would neatly do the trick in one. Not much of a surprise since Keane spent a good deal of time supporting Bono and company following the release their breakthrough debut, Hopes and Fears. From the melancholic "Crystal Ball" to the sinisterly beautiful "Is It Any Wonder?" (a blatant homage to "Zoo Station"), Keane have perfected their forebear's dark stadium-rock formula on their second album, all the more miraculous considering it was once again done without guitars. If Under the Iron Sea sounds considerably edgier than its predecessor, that's because it was recorded while the band was on the verge of splitting. But the friction has also given Keane a renewed sense of purpose, breaking the mid-tempo monotony with vibrant material such as "Nothing in My Way" and "Try Again": soaring songs that make the band sound unsinkable. --Aidin Vaziri"Under The Iron Sea" was recorded at The Magic Shop in Soho, New York, and back at Helioscentric Studios, near Battle.

In making this record we tried to confront all our worst fears, to ruthlessly scrutinise ourselves, our relationship with each other, with other people, and with the world at large, and to make a journey into the darkest places we could find.

It made for an incredibly intense atmosphere during the writing and recording of the album, and the resultant songs and sounds very much reflect that. In the songs we created a kind of sinister fairytale-world-gone-wrong, a feeling of confusion and numbness represented by a dark place under an impenetrable iron sea. To express all this we created entirely new sounds by putting an old electric piano and various analogue synths through many different combinations of vintage guitar effects pedals, creating soundscapes that range from the percussive to vast oppressive walls of distortion.

We were writing, singing and performing with a drive, intensity and fury that is almost unrecognisable from our previous music.

It was important that this album had a strong visual presence too, and the start of that was the collaboration with Irvine Welsh on ¡®Atlantic¡¯ offered somebody who both inspired us, and found his own inspiration in our music.

His resulting film echoes the importance of that visual identity we strove for.

We wrote Under The Iron Sea because we needed a record that was going to make us feel alive again.

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Under the Iron Sea

Tracks: 12 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 50m 32s

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Tracks: 11, Disk length: 50m 27s (-1m 55s)

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Tracks: 13 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 54m 42s (+4m 10s)

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Tracks: 12 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 54m 44s (+4m 12s)

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Tracks: 12 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 54m 54s (+4m 22s)

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Tracks: 13 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 56m 28s (+5m 56s)

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Tracks: 13 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 58m 30s (+7m 58s)

Under the Iron Sea

Tracks: 18 (+7 tracks), Disk length: 1h 18m 40s (+28m 8s)

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