Are You Aware Of The Fact Keane’s New Single Is Quite Bloody Good?

Maybe British musical ensemble Keane’s soft and gentle and totally Australian Idol-friendly balladry of yesteryear, particularly the song Somewhere Only We Know, didn’t really do much for you, and you’ve never bothered keeping an ear out for their stuff ever since. Fair enough – although you would have missed out on the rather great tune Is It Any Wonder from their follow up record Under The Iron Sea and more fool you.

Well, they’ve just put out the first single from their brand new album, and it’s called Spiralling, and guess what? It’s a bloody corker. Seriously.

Have a listen after the jump.

Admittedly, listening to these things through YouTube makes the whole experience rather underwhelming, but nevertheless, it’s a nice new direction for the band if you ask me.

Also, I am sort of amused by the vaguely aggressive spoken bit at 2.12 because I know that it’s being delivered by one of the most apple-cheeked non-threatening cherubic vocalists to ever to step behind a microphone.