Perfect Symmetry

Rolling Stone (p.129) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "'Spiralling' and 'Pretend That You're Alone' are irresistible dance-pop corkers, and 'Better Than This,' with a keyboard hook lifted from David Bowie's 'Ashes to Ashes,' is catchier yet." Spin (p.96) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "On album three, Keane trick out their pretty piano melodies with tasty synths, booming rap beats, and fuzzy new-wave guitars." Entertainment Weekly (p.97) - "[T]he band have suddenly, gratifyingly, found their mojo. 'Spiralling,' the opener and first single, is brash, ambitious, even sexy, built toweringly on strutting melody lines and anthemic vocal woohs." Uncut - 3 stars out of 5 -- "It's ambitious, triumphantly executed stuff -- melodically, lyrically, Tim Oxley-Rice is a vastly superior songsmith to Chris Martin..." Clash (Magazine) (p.122) - "PERFECT SYMMETRY is arguably one of the most unexpected and altogether arresting returns of the year....[The album] bewilders, enchants and entices..."

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