Keane announce new Best Of collection

The album of greatest hits – and more – is released in November.

It’s hard to believe but it’s almost a decade since Keane, one of East Sussex’s most tuneful exports, had their first UK hit single with Somewhere Only We Know. In celebration of a career that’s seen over 4 million album sales and nine hits on the Official Singles Chart, the group are set to release a retrospective album entitled The Best Of Keane in November.

The collection of tracks doesn’t just take in the big hits. Speaking to Q Magazine, Keane’s frontman Tom Chaplin explained: “We were going to make a record that consisted purely of singles. That idea got vetoed very early on in favour of making something that feels like a proper journey through the best things we've done.”

The famous singles, like Everybody’s Changing, Is It Any Wonder? and Spiralling are all present and correct – but they sit alongside lesser-known tracks such as My Shadow from the 2010 Night Train EP. In Q’s Q&a session, Tom says: “I felt that it never got full justice by being tucked away on that release – so it's great that it gets a second chance here. It's a song about companionship, about looking out for people. I love singing that one live – I have a sense of some kind of cosmic connectedness with the crowd when we play it.”

Looking back on Keane’s career. Tom admits: “I'm sure I've ended-up with more than I could ever have wanted and dreamed of.”

The Best Of Keane is released on 11 November 2013. The full tracklisting is:

Everybody's Changing
Somewhere Only We Know
Bend And Break
Bedshaped
This Is The Last Time
Atlantic
Is It Any Wonder?
Nothing In My Way
Hamburg Song
Crystal Ball
A Bad Dream
Try Again
Spiralling
Perfect Symmetry
My Shadow
Silenced By The Night
Disconnected
Sovereign Light Café
Higher Than The Sun
Won't Be Broken

Watch the classic video for Everybody’s Changing from 2004:

Keane - Everybody's Changing on MUZU.TV.

Chart Facts

The group’s first album Hopes and Fears was narrowly pipped to the post as biggest seller of 2004 by Scissor Sisters’ eponymous debut. Just 582 copies separated the two, which both shifted over 1.5 million copies in their first year of release. Hopes and Fears has, in total, sold just over 2.8 million copies in the UK.

If you include the 2010 EP Night Train, all five of Keane’s albums have topped the Official Albums Chart.