2008年官网的乐队背景资料
2010-03-5 新闻报道 enchinya
Great hooks, big choruses and massive middle eights come as a factory setting with Keane, of course, something that’s meant that, previously, Rice-Oxley’s lyrics have sometimes perhaps not been given the attention they deserve. That’s unlikely to prove the case with Perfect Symmetry, which features his most direct, unambiguous and, yes, best words to date. Whether on train-of-thought, Pygmalion-inspired Spiralling, broadside on fame-for-fame’s-sake Better Than This or the title track Perfect Symmetry which brilliantly takes as its theme the futile distractions of the human race (“I think it might be the best song I’ve ever written” says Rice-Oxley, here Big Ideas are never sacrificed on the altar of great tunes.
“I love Better Than This,” agrees Chaplin. “Sonically it’s a big departure, but lyrically, being about the state of ‘celebrity culture’… people see it as such an important thing and pin so much hope on it. Certainly, in my opinion, the fame and celebrity side of things is something I find hard to reconcile. I’d much rather it was just about the music; the reason we got into the band in the first place. It wasn’t to get rich or become famous or to get girls – it was to be out there singing. That magic connection between you and a crowd of people who have turned up to pour everything out, like you have… that coming together is the biggest buzz in my life.”
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So that’s Keane in 2008: the big gigs, big chart success and big awards we know about; now here’s the album of their career. A big, bold, shiny pop monster that’s as likely to appeal to hearts and minds as it is to feet.
“Because we nearly lost it all, we nearly lost the band and we could have gone our separate ways,” says Chaplin, “we had this reinvention as people. You know, ‘We might not have this, so we might as well enjoy it’. That affected everything that we did with this album.”
No wonder it starts with an ‘Oooh!’
KEANE are:
Tom Chaplin – vocals, etc.
Richard Hughes – drums, etc.
Tim Rice-Oxley – piano, etc.