Night Train

Keane | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 11, 2010)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Interscope Records
• ASIN: B002ZRPQ5K
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (94 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,937 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. House Lights

2. Back In Time

3. Stop For A Minute (Feat. K'NAAN)

4. Clear Skies

5. Ishin Denshin (You've Got To Help Yourself) (Feat. Tigarah)

6. Your Love

7. Looking Back (Feat. K'NAAN)

8. My Shadow

Editorial Reviews

Following the worldwide success of their first three albums, the members of Keane will now release Night Train (Cherrytree/Interscope). The band who has had three consecutive #1 albums in their native UK and have played sold out shows throughout the US will also soon announce tour dates in North America for this coming Spring.

Night Train features eight powerful new tracks which were written and recorded during the band's Perfect Symmetry world tour that saw them playing to packed arenas in 28 countries. The album takes its title from the band's favorite mode of transportation during the tour, and includes Keane's genre-busting collaborations with Somali/Canadian rapper K'Naan, `Stop For A Minute' and `Looking Back'.

"I think these tracks show us in a completely different light." says Keane frontman Tom Chaplin.

Other highlights include "Ishin Denshin (You've Got To HelpYourself)", which features Japanese MC Tigarah, as well as the gorgeous "Your Love", which hangs around a rare lead vocal from the band's Ivor Novello-winning songwriter Tim Rice-Oxley.

Keane, who are Tom Chaplin, Richard Hughes, and Tim Rice-Oxley; together they have sold close to 10 million albums copies of their albums Hopes And Fears (2004), Under The Iron Sea (2006) and Perfect Symmetry (2008). They have played sold-out arena tours, and were the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. With songs such as Is It Any Wonder?, Everybody's Changing, Crystal Ball and Somewhere Only We Know, Keane is one of Britain's best-loved bands and will surprise and thrill their fans all over again.

Customer Reviews

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48 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Keane's newest doesn't leave the station..., June 14, 2010

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D. Ebreo (Watertown, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Night Train (Audio CD)

So, you're a Keane fan are you? Well, I hope you haven't bought the new CD yet...if you have, I'm sorry. Keane's newest release is 8 songs long, clocking in at a whopping 31 minutes. Sure, the Beatles albums were often short and no one would say they weren't great...and there have been recent memorable releases that have barely stretched a half hour...Paper Tigers by Caesars jumps right to mind. However, upon closer look and listen, this Keane CD falls very short of being called a classic. You can start with saying it's really a 7 song CD that clocks in at just under 30 minutes, as track 1, "House Lights", is a minute and 24 seconds of nothing. "Back In Time", which follows, is a good song, but nothing that will make you forget standout songs from past Keane CD's. When it's over, it's left your head. That's followed by the official single, "Stop For A Minute", which sounds extremely promising until guest rapper, K'Naan, sings lines like "Baby, you are just beautiful from your crown to your cuticles". Sadly, that gem might be one of the better lines and it makes me cringe every time I hear it. I'm certainly not against rap...even if it doesn't quite fit Keane's style...but I am against bad rap. The song "Clear Skies" follows, and it's easily the highlight of the CD. With hand claps and vivid lyrics, Keane makes you wonder if the ship has been righted and we're set for smooth sailing. But then "Ishin Denshin (You've Got To Help Yourself)" starts to play and you vomit a little in your mouth. I don't know what guest vocalist Tigarah is singing in Japanese, but if it's as syrupy sweet as the English lyrics, I don't want to know. I skip this song more than any other on the CD, which is saying a lot. Next up is "Your Love"...another song which makes you think things are headed in the right direction. "Looking Back", another song with guest vocalist K'Naan, follows and it's not much better than the first he guested on. Lines like "hard to separate my past from a rhyme, cause how could you separate milk from lime" will leave you scratching your head. Instead of thinking things are going to get better, you start to wonder if this Canadian singer/rapper has some incriminating photos of the guys in the band? Or maybe this is some cruel joke? Did Keane have to finish out a contract? Finally, mercilessly, the CD ends with "My Shadow"...which ends the CD on a decent note...if you didn't pop it out of your CD player before then.

Bottom line...if you're a big Keane fan, I highly recommend you stay away from this CD, or else you may be scarred for life. If you feel you must own some new music from Keane, definitely download "Your Love" and "Clear Skies". And if you can get an edited version of "Stop For A Minute", minus the rap...go there too. Otherwise...pop Hopes & Fears, Under The Iron Sea, or even Perfect Symmetry into your CD player...you'll be much happier you did.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pretty, pretty, pretty bad!, August 11, 2010

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Josh Jellel - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Night Train (Amazon MP3 Exclusive Version) [+Digital Booklet] (MP3 Download)

For goodness sake, DO NOT download the whole album! Listen well to the samples and don't assume a song will get better than what you hear there. Then download probably two tracks and resign yourself to listening to Hopes and Fears or Under the Iron Sea again for a year or so more while you hope for better.

Imagine a whole album of the worst parts of Perfect Symmetry, and that's what Keane have delivered here.

26 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Another Step in the Wrong Decade, May 11, 2010

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Gregory Alongi - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Night Train (Audio CD)

When did Keane become an 80's pop band? When Keane first emerged with Hopes and Fears, they were unique and modern. Under The Iron Sea was an incredible follow-up album. After that, they released Perfect Symmetry which was half 80's pop and half beautiful modern music.

This album is unfortunately an extension of the 80's pop half of Perfect Symmetry. Between the cheesy synthesizer sounds and the electronic drums, this is just not the Keane I was looking forward to hearing. I hope their next album will be a step in a better direction, but I fear we've lost Keane to this new, yet out-dated style.