KEANE DETAILED INFORMATIONS ABOUT THEIR THIRD ALBUM

First, all the credits go to a Keane fan Chris Flynn who wrote everything you'll see here.
This text is based in Keane quotes,interviews and posts in their official site.
Once again, this wasn't wrote by us but by a Keane's fan called Chris Flynn.

Album title - Song titles mentioned - Black Burning Heart, Playing Along
(falsely quoted as Playing Away) , Perfect Symmetry, 'YHTMA'
Written - February 2007 onwards
Recorded - February 2008 onwards
Recorded at:
+ le Studio de la Grande Armée, Paris, France - 11th February to 23rd February *.
+ Teldex Studio, Berlin, Germany - 4th March onwards
Produced - Jon Brion (Paris), Stuart Price (Berlin - from 14th March)
Additional personnel - Jesse Quin (bass)
Mixed -
Label - Universal (Island / Interscope)
Latest quoted release date - 'late September 2008' (31 December 2007).

- Details: -
14 March 2008 - Tim - keanemusic.com - message
+ Stuart Price has arrived to work on the sessions in Berlin.
+ "Richard's massive '80s drum sounds"
+ "[We] are agreed that the more tasteless and uncool we can make our music the
better, and that only when you lose the fear of breaking the unwritten rules of musical
etiquette can you make a really great album."

29 February 2008 - Richard - keanemusic.com - message
+ The band left France after two weeks, with "five tracks <...> well on the way".
+ Jesse Quin is recording basslines (previously played bass at Union Chapel and Warchild
gigs in November 2007)
+ One of the new songs is titled 'Playing Along' as opposed to 'Playing Away'
+ Song title mention: 'YHTMA' (may be an abbreviation).
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15 February 2008 - Tim - keanemusic.com - message
+ The band spent "3 weeks working on songs in Sussex" (presumably the barn).
+ "We're now in Paris recording".
+ Jon Brion is working on the sessions in Paris.
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23 January 2008 - Richard - keanemusic.com - Q&A
+ "I guess I might sing on the record".
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18 January 2008 - Tom - keanemusic.com - Q&A
+ "There's a new song called 'Perfect Symmetry', which is the best song that Tim has
ever written. A true classic and also a song for our times. I can't wait to start singing
it to you lot out there. You won't be disappointed."
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31 December 2007 - Feature - Q Magazine, February 2008
+ "currently being written in a converted barn in Sussex."
+ More than 20 songs for possible inclusion.
+ Aim to finish recording in late summer, with a view to September release.
+ Possibly released as 4 EPs.
+ Tim affirms the benefits of "throwing things down quickly".
+ Tim: "...There's something to be said for having a minimalist approach: just drums,
bass and voice."
+ Tom: "Some of them have a very classic feel. These could have come off a Talking
Heads album. Or a U2 record from the '80s. Or a classic Bowie record."
+ Tom: "Perfect Symmetry sounds like something off [Bowie's 1973 album] Aladdin
Sane."
+ Song titles mentioned: Black Burning Heart, Playing Along (quoted as Playing Away),
Perfect Symmetry.
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6 August 2007 - Richard - keanemusic.com fans interview
+ "We've got some time in our barn, the HQ, which we're going to spend working on
stuff in advance"
+ "We've said in the past that we don't want to just churn out records that are the same"
+ "Maybe we'll try something that's as empty as possible. There's certainly elements of
that that you could experiment with. You could try and be more minimal in your approach
with instruments and try to get a bit more funk in there. We'll see! Or it might just be a rock
album – you know, I don't know."
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15 June 2007 - Tim - Planet Sound - interview
+ "Yes, [Tom]'s writing quite a bit. But, more importantly, we're trying to pool our
resources creatively. It's not the basic writing, it's getting in a room, taking a basic
form and having input."
+ "What are the new songs' lyrics like?
Quite philosophical in places. I've just written a song I'm very pleased with which is
about small-town America, it's quite a rant. I'm not a big fan of its religious small-minded
nature. There are a lot of good things about small-town US, like the community feel, but a
lot of appalling things too."
+ "How do the five winning songs sound?
Quite a variety, which is why it's hard to say too much. It's very early days. Some take a
direct line from Under The Iron Sea, a song like Leaving So Soon. The other side of the
songs is newer. One is very, very different. It's more of a Kanye West vibe. It's fantastic,
it's got some great stuff in it, a very exciting piece of music. The name of it keeps changing."
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12 April 2007 - Tim - keane.fr - interview
+ "Tom wants to try one of our news songs as a kind of a duet, a bit like 'Two Of Us' by
The Beatles, so we'll see how that sounds!"

3 April 2007 - Tim - keanemusic.com - interview
+ "Well, we've actually spent the last four days working on new songs, which has
been pretty exciting. <...> It's good to be playing together, working songs up in an
organic way rather than just layering them in the studio. <...> They're sounding
really great."
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20 February 2007 - Tom - keanemusic.com interview
+ "Tim made a compilation of about 15 or 20 songs."
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* Jesse posted a picture of an empty studio room to Flickr taken on 23rd February.
Tim's posting on the 15th suggests the band were in Paris on the Monday, so
we can assume the sessions were between 11th and 23rd.

(Wrote by Chris Flynn)
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