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Keane Ready New Album ‘Night Train’
By: Chad | Source: Alternative Addiction
Saturday, April 24, 2010

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Keane is preparing to release their new album Night Train on May 11th, an album that drummer Richard Hughes says was recorded entirely at different points during the band’s last tour in support of their 2008 release Perfect Symmetry.

“It was recorded over the course of the last 18 months [during] touring,” Hughes told Alternative Addiction. “We just stopped off at various studios in various continents, and at the end of it we had enough to release this album.”

Many of the tracks were never intended to be part of an album; Hughes says the band was just using the studio time to break the monotony of touring.

“Oddly enough, touring can be sort of stifling, just playing songs again and again. Getting into the studio and playing some new songs is a nice break.”

What started out as the band just toying with some different musical ideas, eventually evolved into the eight tracks that would comprise Night Train.

“Most of the songs were just ones we wanted to do for fun, and we were just really happy with what came out,” explained Hughes. “It was a much more sort of relaxed process than we have ever done before. Usually in a studio there is that bit of nervousness or pressure that we didn’t really feel on this, we just sort of went for it, and if it sounded good, it stayed.”

Hughes said that due to the nature and atmosphere that the album was recorded in, fans should still take the album seriously, but not too seriously.

“It should be taken seriously, but again it’s us going into studios while on tour having fun,” said Hughes. “It’s definitely a different thing for us, but with each of our albums there has been a progression.”

Some of the highlights of the album include two collaborations with Somali rapper K’Naan and Japanese funk MC Tigarah. The album also includes the first track Keane has ever recorded with songwriter/pianist Tim Rice-Oxley singing lead vocals.

Following the release of the album, Keane is expected to announce plans for a US summer tour in support of the new album, although the band is not expected to continue touring into the fall.

“Towards the end of the year we’ll probably hit the studio and start on another new record, and then hit the road big time in 2011.”

Night Train is due in stores in the US on May 11th.