Keane have been speaking about what to expect on new album 'Under The Iron Sea'.
The follow-up to 'Hopes & Fears' sees the band take on a dark persona as they go on a "journey into the darkest places we could find", as they put it.
The second album was recorded at The Magic Shop in Soho, New York, and at Helioscentric Studios, near Battle, a small town in the south of England where the band members went to school together.
They say: "In making this record we tried to confront all our worst fears, to ruthlessly scrutinise ourselves, our relationships with each other, with other people, and with the world at large, and to make a journey into the darkest places we could find. It made for an incredibly intense atmosphere during the writing and recording of the album, and the resultant music very much reflects that. "
"In the songs we created a kind of sinister fairytale-world-gone-wrong, a feeling of confusion and numbness represented by a dark place under an impenetrable iron sea. To express all this we created entirely new sounds by putting an old electric piano and various analogue synths through many different combinations of vintage guitar effects pedals, creating soundscapes that range from the percussive to vast oppressive walls of distortion. "
"We were writing, singing and performing with a drive, intensity and fury that is almost unrecognisable from our previous music. We wrote 'Under The Iron Sea' because we needed a record that was going to make us feel alive again."
'Under The Iron Sea' is released on June 12th, with new single 'Is It Any Wonder?' available on May 29th.
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Keane have been speaking about what to expect on new album 'Under The Iron Sea'.
