Monday, March 16, 2009

Keane | Better Than This

If you can get past the obvious intro rip-off of David Bowie's Ashes To Ashes rip-off and put it down to 80s homage, you'll realise frontman Tom Chaplin is, as ever, singing to himself and not the audience. A technique somewhat unique to Keane, it is rather off-putting to hear someone singing to you the line: 'You can do so much better than this'. If I can, then Keane certainly can do too. Examples can be found on their 3rd album, Perfect Symmetry, for instance. 3/5