What is there the guys from "Keane" succeeded, is a truly exceptional mature and simply "else", a great album! "Hopes and Fears" is the disc - and describes very well what it seems the trio to go in their songs - light and shadow, hopes and fears Solider Britpop, of not comparing with such greats like Oasis, Travis and Coldplay! shy needs ... and because it does not seem surprising that Keane far as support of Travis and Coldplay was with go. Melancholic lines enveloped by soft melodies, the singer Tom Chaplin brings suffering and exciting at the same time on the phone. For this, the branding itself Hooks of the piano, to the multi-instrumentalist Tim Rice-Oxley only a fraction of his skills proves he is incidentally still responsible for the bass tracks and the lyrics. Add to that a drum that can not decide between silence and sudden eruption , percussive line stroke to stirring rhythms (Richard Hughes) .The opener "Somewhere only we know" which is the single at the same time seems to be an anticipated Resumée the following ten songs. Keane why actually Keane? A silent tribute to an older lady named "Cherry Keane," which has been taking care of their children in time to three and the nice aunt next door was ... a nice anecdote that sympathetic, modest band Keane -. Extravagant turmoil in tones. Quiet and fragile, melancholic and sad, happy and aufrappelnd, poppy and catchy choruses with which animate to sing along ... and then somehow to remain in Revel and this fantastic album to hear again and again, without noticing in how quickly time flies.