Keane perform their style more straightforward; remain the piano and melancholic sound faithfully. That the border to kitsch here is fluid, know owners of its predecessor already, because even there you lurched dangerously pathos and Weltschmerz waters without thankfully completely sink into them.
War "Hopes & Fears", in which almost everyone of the eleven titles in the ear canal festbiß, very constant in its quality, is the Keane again growing professionalism should be noted at this consistently good record.
Although the direct counterpart may lack to "Somewhere Only We Know", songs like "Nothing In My Way", "A Bad Dream" and "Crystal Ball" compensate for everything. Even the opener, "Atlantic" and the number one single "Is It Any Wonder?" know - almost all tracks on the album, such as - to convince.
"Under The Iron Sea 'is little experimentally, neither innovative nor visionary, but simply offers what fans usually most like: a solid sequel to one debut album, which has immense expectations screwed up. The latter are mostly filled with "Under The Iron Sea" determines Keane go but their chosen path, for which they have then harvested as much applause, consistently.
