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| n/a by www.ew.com |
As rock goes, Symmetry remains a relatively quiet riot, but in the context of the band itself, it's a welcome revelation. |
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| n/a by www.spin.com |
On album three, Keane trick out their pretty piano melodies with tasty synths ('The Lovers Are Losing'), booming rap beats ('Spiralling'), and fuzzy new-wave guitars ('You Havent Told Me Anything'). |
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| n/a by www.guardian.co.uk |
Often during Perfect Symmetry, listeners of a certain age might find themselves recalling Simple Minds or Tears for Fears. Whether that thought fills you with delight or revulsion rather determines the album's appeal. |
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| n/a by www.uncut.co.uk |
It's ambitious, triumphantly executed stuff--melodically, lyrically, Tim Oxley-Rice is a vastly superior songsmith to Chris Martin--and will doubtless shortly be inescapable. But you can't shake the dispiriting feeling it might have all been expressly commissioned by Dave Cameron for the opening night of London 2012. |
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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
Unfortunately, Perfect Symmetry is an album characterized by its heavy-handedness, so while it sounds as though the band was aiming for Echo & the Bunnymen, they hit Duran Duran or Simple Minds instead, making for a brand new record that often sounds badly dated. |
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| n/a by www.blender.com |
Despite its boldness, Perfect Symmetry is as swollen with corny grandeur as a political convention, guided by the delusion that a pompous speech somehow becomes fun if its accompanied by a balloon drop. |
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| n/a by NME |
Musically, theyve ripped off swathes of things contemporary and popular to make them ‘hip, but it just feels like some dodgy old guy at a bus stop telling you he digs Klaxons. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
Perfect Symmetry bursts out of the gate with a suite of giddy, '80s-inflected Brit pop songs that, surprisingly, suit the band well. |
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| n/a by www.boston.com |
It is a surprise and a thrill to hear that even as the band enters its artsy phase--expanding its instrumental palette to include mewling saws and clattering percussion--the songs remain uniformly excellent from stem to stern. |
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| n/a by www.musicomh.com |
While this isn't the daring brave leap forward that was whispered about when Spiralling was released, it will no doubt prove another multi-million seller for the trio from Battle. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
That means when Perfect Symmetry is at its best, youll think of a-ha, and when its at its worst...Go West, anyone? And yet, the more things change, the more they stay the same, and underneath it all, this is very much a Keane album. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
Perfect Symmetry is often an exhilarating and unexpected pop record from a band you'd have thought incapable of either, and there's something genuinely life-affirming about that. |
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| n/a by Rolling Stone |
Keane still have a tendency to get mushy and melancholic when the ballads get big (check out the meaning- of-life musings on the synth-whipped title track), but even the mopiest moments leave you in good cheer. |
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