Keane Album: “Night Train”

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.

You're at the store holding Keane's latest CD in your hands. The album art is cool, the song titles catchy, the stickers on the front claim it's "a game changer," and some of the songs even feature other artists. You've liked Keane's stuff in the past, even if it has been a little all over the map as far as styles go. But so far everything seems to be telling you this will be a good CD.

Lies. Run. Just run away. Hide your cash and credit card in your wallet, then hide your wallet with your grandma, and make her promise not to buy you any CDs this holiday season, if only to make absolutely certain she doesn't accidentally purchase this one because it has cool album art, catchy titles and a sticker on the front saying nice things.

Others have said it in their reviews but I'll repeat the same frustrations here, only with bullets!

--There are only 8 songs on the CD, which sucks even more when you find out the first "song" is a 90 second instrumental waste of space

--Of the guest artists, one speaks Japanese the whole time so you can't understand her and the other uses lines like "Hard to separate my past from a rhyme, Cos how can you separate milk from lime"

--None of the songs are memorable enough to save the rest of the CD, and some repeat the same phrase over and over again, making it seem even more like this was (poorly) thrown together at the last second

Do you like Keane? Don't buy this CD. Do you not like Keane? Don't buy this CD.

I thought Keane will reach greatness ala Coldplay or Radiohead after two albums but they instead fell into a pit. This is their worst work to date. Nothing worth listening to or even any standout single in this crap. Save your money. If you must buy one Keane CD, get the 1st one (Hopes and Fears) which I think is a classic. Every song is worth listening to.

I have never written a review on Amazon until now. Lord have mercy! Where did my boys go?? This jumbled up mess has traumatized me. Keane is by far one of the best bands to come out in the past decade but much like others on here, I feel their albums have progressively become worse.

I, too am all about artists evolving but not so far that the original art has been lost. Artists depend on their fans, and their is a reason Keane became famous but this album clearly lacks any trace of that reason.

Keane, please return back to the powerful all encompassing melodic dream music that made you so famous to begin with...

Yeah, this album is not good at all.

"My Shadow" is passable; the highlight of this dismal album.

Keane is a great, great band, but this album is pretty bad.