Keane - 'Night Train' (Island)
Like a modern empowered woman, Keane are obsessed with ‘having it all’. Juggling a career, great hair and kids equates for them to making safe, dowdy AOR while giving the finger to those who call them safe, dowdy AOR. The fan-alienating...
Chairlift
Fuck you, Brooklyn, and your faultless DIY art-pop scene. You’re probably sick of having your dick sucked these days, aren’t you? Well lie back and think of Obama, because it’s happening again. Chairlift are the latest group to arrive...
Keane
Reviewing Keane is always a tricky business. Any sort of faint praise and we get our hands cut off for being traitors to the punk rock cause, but if we give them a proper bashing we’re boorish and predictable. There’s no denying that they’ve...
Keane : London Kentish Town Bull & Gate
Until Keane make a video featuring Tom Chaplin being vigorously spanked in a sleazy NYC nitespot (or at least choose to make existing footage public), this Battle trio will never have too much in common with the Scissor Sisters . But when...
Keane : London ULU
Keane , it's fair to say, are not the reason Hendrix first doused his axe with petrol and frantically soloed amidst a ball of flames. They're not the reason Sid phlegmed up his first ball of gob. And no, Kurt Cobain definitely didn't die for...
