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. KEANE UNDER THE IRON SEA LTD EDITION CD/DVD/BOOK 2006 ISLAND UNIVERSAL. 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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