Yes, they sound alot different to what they sounded like on hopes and fears or under the iron sea, but that is because they have always been a changing band, even since before they were famous. they were a full-on guitar band before they became piano rock. the story behind better than this, for example is that 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. the fame and celebrity side of things is something I find hard to reconcile.

The problem with manufactured popular music, which is peaking the charts now nd always (sadly), is that people, like you namely, dont seem to appreciate the machinations behind a song or their meaning or what impact it might have on people’s lives. they just chew up the next number one pop artist and spit them back out again.

The fact of the matter is that keane are an amazing band and that this latest effort is as legendary as their first or second albums, if not more so. If people took a bit more time to think about a song a bit more thoroughly, then it would be alot more appreciated.

There are alot of people out there who think as I do, thankfully, and that’s why keane are going to be one of the legendary bands of our generation and they will bring out a whole hell of alot of new albums and they’ll be amazin as well.

And by the way, out of the billions of people on the planet, I could really count on the fact that that joke has never been told before.