Album of the Week: Keane – “Under the Iron Sea” (2006)
2009/08/02Track 2: Is It Any Wonder?:
I have been totally loving Keane these past few months. I knew of them before, but it didn’t hit me until one day I was listening to “Everybody’s Changing” off their first album “Hopes and Fears” a few months ago.
This album, “Under the Iron Sea” has really stuck out to me as exceptional. I listened to is obsessively until I tired of it, then removed it from my car, only to crave it again this month. I really connect with many of the songs personally. The existential themes of self doubt in many of the songs hit home, like they were written for me. e.g. from “Is It Any Wonder?”…
Sometimes
It’s hard to know where I stand
It’s hard to know where I am
Well maybe it’s a puzzle I don’t understand
But sometimes
I get the feeling that I’m
Stranded in the wrong time
Where love is just a lyric in a children’s rhyme, a soundbite
Is it any wonder that I’m tired
Is it any wonder that I feel uptight
Is it any wonder I don’t know what’s right
Keane is totally in my head. I am constantly questioning my actions, thoughts, & beliefs and the uncertainty is indeed tiring. I have to force myself to push the “Publish” button on these blog posts and not look back or else I would question my every word and take me all day to write anything at all. I’d swear that the older I get the less I feel like I really know and am certain of. At least it is comforting others feel the same way, and have put it into song!
Here are my 6 favorites from the album, with “Is It Any Wonder?” being my favorite… er… maybe “Leaving So Soon?”. I can’t decide. Both are so good!
Track 2: Is It Any Wonder?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7pdsp
Track 4: Leaving So Soon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo2wLUNaNO8
Track 5: A Bad Dream
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1iy4n
Track 7: Put It Behind You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXqNbeS91Ps
Track 9: Crystal Ball
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1akow
Track 12: The Frog Prince
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQKauYv9uZ4
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This is truly a fantastic album. It was in my CD player for many weeks. I just wish that they could have held the same standard on Perfect Symmetry
Agreed! “Perfect Symmetry” is a lesser album. I wonder if Keane themselves agree? It is inevitable though as a band keeps making new albums that some will be better that others. Will “Under the Iron Sea” be their peak? I guess we will find out.