![]() The name of the album is based on a lyric in the track " Crystal Ball", which reads "I've lost my heart, I buried it too deep, under the Iron Sea". According to Chaplin, Rice-Oxley had composed at least 50 tracks as of April 2006. During the tour, Rice-Oxley kept composing new songs that would later appear on future releases such as the B-sides "Let It Slide" and "Thin Air". "Hamburg Song" was written about the strained relationship between singer Tom Chaplin and pianist Tim Rice-Oxley, and was composed circa August 2004. As seen on Strangers, the band had been having trouble since the middle of 2004, shortly after the release of the debut. 4.3 Taiwanese limited edition bonus DVDĪfter the release of their debut album, Hopes and Fears, Keane embarked upon a world tour that reached virtually all Europe and North America and which culminated in October 2005.4.2 Latin American tour edition bonus DVD.We wrote Under The Iron Sea because we needed a record that was going to make us feel alive again. ![]() His resulting film echoes the importance of that visual identity we strove for. It was important that this album had a strong visual presence too, and the collaboration with Irvine Welsh on “Atlantic” offered somebody who both inspired us, and found his own inspiration in our music. ![]() We were writing, singing and performing with a drive, intensity and fury that is almost unrecognisable from our previous music. To express all this we created entirely new sounds by putting an old electric piano and various analogue synths through many different combinations of vintage guitar effects pedals, creating soundscapes that range from the percussive to vast oppressive walls of distortion. In the songs we created a kind of sinister fairytale-world-gone-wrong, a feeling of confusion and numbness represented by a dark place under an impenetrable iron sea. It made for an incredibly intense atmosphere during the writing and recording of the album, and the resultant songs and sounds very much reflect that. ![]() ![]() In making this record we tried to confront all our worst fears, to ruthlessly scrutinise ourselves, our relationship with each other, with other people, and with the world at large, and to make a journey into the darkest places we could find. ![]()
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