Keane - Hopes And Fears 20 (20th Anniversary Edition) Artist_Carl Stone

Keane - Hopes And Fears 20 (20th Anniversary Edition) Artist_Carl StoneKeane's debut album album and the 11th best selling album of the 2000s in the UK. The album is full of soaring and romantic songs like Everybodys Changing and Somewhere Only We Know. Tim Rice Oxleys piano stylings range from Ben Folds on Cant Stop Now to Chris Martin on Your Eyes Open, never leaning too heavily in one direction and ultimately providing the musical backbone over which Chaplin is allowed to sweep and soar.

After being inspired by recordings of age-old traditional chants

Carried on an evening breeze of strings and a supple

This record doesn’t pull any punches

and has been as creative as ever during lockdown

artists and musicians imprisoned or murdered by the military powers

with Umezu on clarinet and bass clarinet and Harada on piano

like many other underground cult classics

are a two-fold pleasure to listen to and to dance to

it was just an excuse to rock out

Although undeniably a stew of impeccable influences – from blues to folk to Latin to dusty funk

a collection of his lyrics spanning forty years

boasting the already ubiquitous disco pop anthem 'D