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| 1 by Albumvote |
is it just me who thinks this album is a bitter disappointment? i know hopes and fears is a hard act to follow, but coldplay have improved with every new album. under the iron sea is with the exceptio... |
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| 3 by Rolling Stone |
English piano-drums-voice trio Keane made big, theatrical songs cut with Coldplay-style melancholia and a boatload of sad-eyed hooks on their 2004 debut, which earned them a smash in their home countr... |
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| n/a by www.ew.com |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
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| n/a by Billboard |
For all the lavish praise that guitarless U.K. trio Keane garnered for its ultra-poppy debut, "Hopes and Fears," a subsequent backlash reproached the very elements that made the band a star: t... |
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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
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| n/a by www.eonline.com |
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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
Let's start by getting one thing straight: Keane is not Radiohead. Lilting yet soaring vocals layered over major piano chords does not a Thom Yorke Jr. make. It's a critical misstep to compare... |
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| n/a by www.nowtoronto.com |
Whether you'll like the newest Keane offering depends largely on your appetite for melodrama. Every word out of wailing singer Tom Chaplin comes in the grandiose, dramatically dire fashion that de... |
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| n/a by arts.guardian.co.uk |
Ask Keane to comment on the human condition, and they'll write a well-upholstered ballad about it. Their weakness for orchestral drama (which they achieve as a guitarless three-piece) and ability ... |
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| n/a by www.musicomh.com |
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| n/a by observer.guardian.co.uk |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
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