Nearly 10 years after soft-rocking English outfit Keane delivered their smash debut Hopes and Fears, the group have announced they'll issue a greatest-hits set this fall.
The news was confirmed in an interview with Rolling Stone, who report that The Best of Keane arrives November 12. The standard collection will include songs culled from their four full-length LPs, as well as new tracks "Higher Than the Sun" and "Won't Be Broken." A deluxe edition will include a disc of B-sides and live tracks, while the "super-deluxe" edition adds a DVD of the band playing an acoustic set.
Of putting together a best-of, vocalist Tom Chaplin noted, "I'm very surprised and weirded out by the whole thing. But also I think there's a part of me that was always striving towards this, so it's been a kind of extraordinary life that's been handed to me."
The interview also had Chaplin waxing over Keane's catalogue, stating that their 2006 sophomore LP Under the Iron Sea was "the darkest record that we made, but probably the best-sounding one," while Perfect Symmetry's title track "was the best song Tim [Rice-Oxley, pianist] ever wrote and the best song we ever came up with as a band," despite its five-minute run time keeping it off the singles charts.
You can watch a trailer for the collection down below.
The Best of Keane:
CD1:
1. Everybody's Changing
2. Somewhere Only We Know
3. Bend and Break
4. Bedshaped
5. This Is The Last Time
6. Atlantic
7. Is It Any Wonder?
8. Nothing In My Way
9. Hamburg Song
10. Crystal Ball
11. A Bad Dream
12. Try Again
13. Spiralling
14. Perfect Symmetry
15. My Shadow
16. Silenced By The Night
17. Disconnected
18. Sovereign Light Café
19. Higher Than The Sun
20. Won't Be Broken
CD2:
1. Snowed Under
2. Walnut Tree
3. Fly To Me
4. To The End Of The Earth
5. The Way You Want It
6. Something In Me Was Dying
7. Allemande
8. Let It Slide
9. He Used To Be A Lovely Boy
10. Thin Air
11. The Iron Sea (Magic Shop Version)
12. Maybe I Can Change
13. Time To Go
14. Staring At The Ceiling
15. Myth
16. Difficult Child
17. Sea Fog (Live in Mexico City)
18. Russian Farmer's Song
The news was confirmed in an interview with Rolling Stone, who report that The Best of Keane arrives November 12. The standard collection will include songs culled from their four full-length LPs, as well as new tracks "Higher Than the Sun" and "Won't Be Broken." A deluxe edition will include a disc of B-sides and live tracks, while the "super-deluxe" edition adds a DVD of the band playing an acoustic set.
Of putting together a best-of, vocalist Tom Chaplin noted, "I'm very surprised and weirded out by the whole thing. But also I think there's a part of me that was always striving towards this, so it's been a kind of extraordinary life that's been handed to me."
The interview also had Chaplin waxing over Keane's catalogue, stating that their 2006 sophomore LP Under the Iron Sea was "the darkest record that we made, but probably the best-sounding one," while Perfect Symmetry's title track "was the best song Tim [Rice-Oxley, pianist] ever wrote and the best song we ever came up with as a band," despite its five-minute run time keeping it off the singles charts.
You can watch a trailer for the collection down below.
The Best of Keane:
CD1:
1. Everybody's Changing
2. Somewhere Only We Know
3. Bend and Break
4. Bedshaped
5. This Is The Last Time
6. Atlantic
7. Is It Any Wonder?
8. Nothing In My Way
9. Hamburg Song
10. Crystal Ball
11. A Bad Dream
12. Try Again
13. Spiralling
14. Perfect Symmetry
15. My Shadow
16. Silenced By The Night
17. Disconnected
18. Sovereign Light Café
19. Higher Than The Sun
20. Won't Be Broken
CD2:
1. Snowed Under
2. Walnut Tree
3. Fly To Me
4. To The End Of The Earth
5. The Way You Want It
6. Something In Me Was Dying
7. Allemande
8. Let It Slide
9. He Used To Be A Lovely Boy
10. Thin Air
11. The Iron Sea (Magic Shop Version)
12. Maybe I Can Change
13. Time To Go
14. Staring At The Ceiling
15. Myth
16. Difficult Child
17. Sea Fog (Live in Mexico City)
18. Russian Farmer's Song
