“We grew up listening to bands like Depeche Mode, the Beatles and the Smiths - people who were always trying to do new things with the set-up they had. We made a point of changing things up,” he says. Now that the album has taken shape, Rice-Oxley believes that fans of the group’s debut should find Under the Iron Sea a provocative move in another direction. “With that in mind, we did work very hard trying out various track listings and orders of the songs, to get it right.” “We were talking about making good albums, and he was saying that he thinks that the order of songs and the atmosphere that that creates is undervalued but incredibly important,” Hughes explains. While hanging backstage with the legends, drummer Richard Hughes says Bono gave his band some great advice. Not long after settling into a recording studio last fall, U2 asked them to open for their shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden. While their debut featured the soaring, piano-driven ballad “Somewhere Only We Know,” the new effort’s “Strokes-y” first single, “Is It Any Wonder,” deals with weightier stuff, inspired in part by England’s involvement in the war in Iraq.īeyond the lyrical content, Keane wanted to push the album’s formal structure, spurred on by rock’s favorite godfather, Bono. Left to do his own thing while the rest of the band promoted Hopes, Rice-Oxley found his mind drifting to surprisingly somber, political themes.
They sensed I was feeling a lot of pressure and tried to take the heat off me.” The other guys in the band were really helpful. That was difficult - but it all came together in the end. So I had to learn to adjust to writing songs in the back of the bus. “But when you’re moving from one place to another, you don’t have that luxury. “I love to write songs on a piano in a little house in the middle of nowhere in the middle of night with a bottle of wine,” says Rice-Oxley. Keane’s songwriter, pianist Tim Rice-Oxley, who typically writes in romantic isolation, found ways to compose on the road. The outfit fronted by the angelic-piped vocalist Tom Chaplin, began work on their latest effort while promoting their 2004 debut, Hopes and Fears.
British emotive-pop trio Keane will finally release their sophomore album, Under the Iron Sea, June 20th.
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