この音待ってました。
3rdはジャケットも音も80年代エレポップ全開です。
とはいっても、安っぽいものじゃなく、しっかり1stの叙情性と2ndの内省的深いロックを織り交ぜたような出来。すごいポップなんだけど、鳥肌が立つくらい感動するんです。
tom chaplinの復帰を考えると、余計にそう思えてくる。
アルバムとしては隙のない最高傑作ではないでしょうか。
ラストの「love is the end」を聴いて思いっきり余韻に浸りましょう。泣きそうなくらい素晴らしい曲です。
国内盤も気になりますが、来年まで延期となればもう買うしかないですよ。
Perfect Symmetry
仕様 | 価格 | 新品 | 中古品 |
CD, インポート, 2008/10/13
"もう一度試してください。" | インポート |
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| ¥1,773 | ¥708 |
CD, CD, インポート, 2008/11/18
"もう一度試してください。" | CD, インポート |
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| ¥2,637 | ¥229 |
CD, デラックスエディション, インポート, 2008/10/14
"もう一度試してください。" | デラックスエディション, インポート |
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| ¥7,118 | ¥888 |
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USのピアノ・ロックがベン・フォールズなら、UKの誇るピアノ・ロック・バンドがキーン。そのキーンが2年ぶりのアルバムをドロップ!
前作「深海」のリリース後、心身ともに疲れてしまった、という状態から復活を遂げリリースされる今作の特徴は、実際に親交のあるコールド・プレイを思わせる内省的かつ壮大な世界観を感じさせる従来の作品に比べ、明るくポップ色を強めた一枚に。「Spiralling」や「Better Than This」などシンセサイザーを用い、時にファルセットを交えて多幸感すら感じさせる曲調は、80年代のエレ・ポップやMIKAなども思い起こさせる。(silly walker)
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- メーカーにより製造中止になりました : いいえ
- 製品サイズ : 14.3 x 1.04 x 12.67 cm; 95.25 g
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上位レビュー、対象国: 日本
レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
2008年10月29日に日本でレビュー済み
意表を突くキラッキラな80's風味のエレ・ポップから幕を開けるキーンの3作目は、とにかく意欲的です。
途中にはグラムっぽいトリッピーな曲もあり、全体的に癒し効果よりパーティー要素が強い感じです。
ですが、決して路線を急変させた訳ではなく、泣きの叙情ピアノはやや控え目とはいえその存在感は十二分に発揮されており、口ずさみやすさ・メロディの精度は相変わらず折り紙付きです。
前2作まではやや小綺麗に過ぎる感もあったキーンですが、従来の「合唱できる」要素を損なうことなく、プラスαで「踊れる」一面を巧い具合に持たせることに成功した非常に有意義な作品になったと思います。
途中にはグラムっぽいトリッピーな曲もあり、全体的に癒し効果よりパーティー要素が強い感じです。
ですが、決して路線を急変させた訳ではなく、泣きの叙情ピアノはやや控え目とはいえその存在感は十二分に発揮されており、口ずさみやすさ・メロディの精度は相変わらず折り紙付きです。
前2作まではやや小綺麗に過ぎる感もあったキーンですが、従来の「合唱できる」要素を損なうことなく、プラスαで「踊れる」一面を巧い具合に持たせることに成功した非常に有意義な作品になったと思います。
2013年11月23日に日本でレビュー済み
一曲目聴いて卒倒しそうになりました、何かの間違いかとジャケを二度見、でもやはり彼らでした。自分の中で『今までのコトは忘れよう』そんな気分の新生Keaneという印象です。よりダイナミックでエモーショナルにバンドとして世界を目指した曲作りだと感じます、2曲目『the lovers are losing』などTVから流れてきて、街で耳にしてもたぶん違和感なくいい曲だと思います、、が裏をかえせば『わりと普通』になってしまった感が残念でなりません。好みの違いはあるのでしょうが3曲目でまたクラっとしそうになります、あの頃の若くキラキラした感傷的なものを求め続けるのは酷なのでしょう、あまりの変化に戸惑う1枚。しかし、ポップな楽しさでいうなら過去にないほど素敵な仕上がりです、ラストの曲『love is the end』良いですね。
2009年1月9日に日本でレビュー済み
Keaneが好きな方、是非 「Carolina Liar」で検索してみてください。ヴォ-カルは今まで聴いた事の無いような繊細な声の持ち主で、破壊力のあるバラ-ドが武器です。
特に「Done Stealin'」は Keaneの「Somewhere〜」を更に儚くしたような曲。
周りのKeaneファンに差をつけたい方は是非!!
特に「Done Stealin'」は Keaneの「Somewhere〜」を更に儚くしたような曲。
周りのKeaneファンに差をつけたい方は是非!!
2008年12月23日に日本でレビュー済み
Spirallingに始まりLove Is The Endに至る物語が最高です。1stから彼らのメロディはもちろん詞の世界も大好きです。たぶんPerfect Symmetryが作品のハイライトだと思いますが個人的にはLove Is The Endが一番のお気に入りです。あとバンドが戻ってきた事が何より嬉しいです。未発表曲My Shadowが収録されてないのは残念でしたが。
2008年11月25日に日本でレビュー済み
KEANEは前2作ともめちゃくちゃ聴いてました。1作めと2作めがかなり違うので今度はどんな音聴かせてくれるのかなとワクワクしながら再生ボタンを押すと…『フー!』て掛け声が聞こえてきて、ピコピコ電子音、健在な美しい歌声。すごい!期待また裏切られた!(良い意味で)
2曲めは名曲crystal ballのようなイントロから始まり、センス良すぎるメロディーライン。
全体を通して聴くとやはりやみつきになる曲ばかりで、聴けば聴くほど味の出るまさしくスルメアルバム。
やっぱいいよKEANE!
2曲めは名曲crystal ballのようなイントロから始まり、センス良すぎるメロディーライン。
全体を通して聴くとやはりやみつきになる曲ばかりで、聴けば聴くほど味の出るまさしくスルメアルバム。
やっぱいいよKEANE!
2012年10月18日に日本でレビュー済み
1作目を聞いてびっくりした私としてはちょっとがっかり。なぜ皆さん5点なのかなぁ。
これが5点なら1作目のHopes And Fears は8点くらいになっちゃうよ。たしかにそこかしこに、彼らの良さである美しいメロディーはあるけれど、なんとも半端な曲が多い。サビはいいけどそれ以外が...という曲や、その逆もあったり。Hopes..の正統派ブリティッシュエモPOPに心酔した私としてはやはり残念。5曲目と最後の曲はウオークマンに入れているが。なんでかんでKEANEの好きな人にはいいかも。
これが5点なら1作目のHopes And Fears は8点くらいになっちゃうよ。たしかにそこかしこに、彼らの良さである美しいメロディーはあるけれど、なんとも半端な曲が多い。サビはいいけどそれ以外が...という曲や、その逆もあったり。Hopes..の正統派ブリティッシュエモPOPに心酔した私としてはやはり残念。5曲目と最後の曲はウオークマンに入れているが。なんでかんでKEANEの好きな人にはいいかも。
他の国からのトップレビュー
Amazon Customer
5つ星のうち5.0
Five Stars
2016年10月28日にインドでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
awesome
S. Moiseev
5つ星のうち5.0
Reliable and fast delivery.
2016年2月8日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
fast shipping and exactly as listed. thank you! Wife loved the album - mission accomplished!
Nathan Albright
5つ星のうち5.0
Dark And Deep
2015年5月28日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
“Perfect Symmetry” was the third album by Keane, and it marked a change in the music of Keane, by moving away from the Coldplay-style piano ballads they originally became famous for to a more dance pop oriented sound. In general, this change simply seems stylistic, as bands tend to like to expand their sound after a while to stay fresh, adding or subtracting instrumentation, shifting to a more arena friendly sound, or something of that kind. What we see with Keane is a desire to keep their material fresh, add the hint of guitars, and make at least some of their music appealing on the dance floor. We get the same sort of melancholy, though, that one would expect from a Keane album. As usual, here is a track-by-track review:
Spiralling – The album opens with a dark Pygmalion tale of a man giving everything to a particularly and spectacularly ungrateful woman. This is the sort of song that a lot of people can relate to. I imagine if rock stars tend to feel this way about their unsuccessful attempts at romancing gold diggers. It’s a melancholy thought.
The Lovers Are Losing – I can relate to this song a bit painfully well, as it definitely has related to my own life at times. The narrator sings about nightmares and the desire to rearrange the pieces of the dream into something better, but it looks bad no matter how one looks at it. The lyrics are phrased a bit awkwardly, particularly in the chorus, but it suits the song material well.
Better Than This – This song continues the general melancholy mood of the album with a deeply critical song where the narrator tells himself and someone else that they could do so much better than this, not that it helps. The general instrumentation of this song sounds a bit like a clown’s nightmare, which makes perfect sense in context of a song about intense dissatisfaction.
You Haven’t Told Me Anything – This immensely danceable track is another intensely critical song that also contains a great deal of self-criticism, where the narrator sings about the frustration of hearing a lot of negativity in a broken life where the person already knows everything critical and negative that others are telling them. This is yet another song about the frustration of feeling stuck in a rut and not going anywhere.
Perfect Symmetry – This song is the most like the usual synthpop style of Keane’s previous work, and it was an obvious single off of this album. With it’s cold synth it continues the general mood of the album with an almost voyeuristic interest in the pointlessness of life. Ironically, the song seems to present a viewpoint of life as karmic, and pitilessly just. Clearly, there is an absence of hope here, and more gloomy reflection on being stuck in a rut and the fruitless search for love.
You Don’t See Me – This beautiful and haunting ballad is one that I would like to turn into a time-lapsed music video where someone slowly moves through life while everyone around is entirely oblivious to them and rushing about on their business. This song is another melancholy song about caring deeply and paying attention to someone who simply does not want to recognize one’s existence and communicate at all.
Again And Again – This song is a fast-paced but still mopey song about someone speaking in ways that are dishonest and manipulative without caring about the damage they cause to the sensitive soul of the narrator. The song is yet another on this album that talks about frustrated hopes and expectations and going over the same unsatisfactory terrain again and again.
Playing Along – This moody and mostly slow-tempo song is an almost anthemic ode to faking one’s way through life and trying to drown out the sorrow and frustration of life with loud music, appropriately getting louder at some points to demonstrate. The general mood here is one of cynicism towards heroism with a sort of droning melody ending in a chaotic conclusion.
Pretend That You’re Alone – This is another song about pretense, where the narrator attempts to comfort himself with thoughts about evolution and the efforts of his own imagination and the absence of morality. Despite the uptempo music, and the decadent 80’s style beat, the song itself seems rather gloomy and despairing. It is almost as the narrator is desiring to eat and drink and trying to find an escape from life.
Black Burning Heart – This gloomy song reflects on death and blood and isolation and the desire for intimacy despite the extreme pessimism that the narrator feels about life. The author thinks that his memorial will be nothing more than a cenotaph of cloud and that every day is a false start. Even some lovely spoken French cannot deliver this sophisticated piece of midtempo dance pop from extreme gloominess.
Love Is The End – This moody piano ballad, with a somewhat creepy theremin part reflects on life after death, and on the desire for a love to preserve a hope of life even as the narrator seems despondent, without hope whatsoever. The author just trudges along a road he knows goes nowhere in particular, but sings without any sort of joy in the process, except for a sort of desperate longing for genuine love.
As an album, “Perfect Symmetry” has the style of 80’s synth pop, with its disposable “unleaded” sound, but the often upbeat rhythm and music hides an album that is intensely gloomy and morose, almost devoid of hope, with a consistent refrain that the only thing that makes life worth living is love, even if the narrator focuses a bit too exclusively on romantic love in the absence of any kind of hope in divine justice or aid from God in living a better life that is less pointless and more joyous. Still, this album is almost clinical in its portrayal of a life lived without ultimate hope, and it’s not a pretty picture.
Spiralling – The album opens with a dark Pygmalion tale of a man giving everything to a particularly and spectacularly ungrateful woman. This is the sort of song that a lot of people can relate to. I imagine if rock stars tend to feel this way about their unsuccessful attempts at romancing gold diggers. It’s a melancholy thought.
The Lovers Are Losing – I can relate to this song a bit painfully well, as it definitely has related to my own life at times. The narrator sings about nightmares and the desire to rearrange the pieces of the dream into something better, but it looks bad no matter how one looks at it. The lyrics are phrased a bit awkwardly, particularly in the chorus, but it suits the song material well.
Better Than This – This song continues the general melancholy mood of the album with a deeply critical song where the narrator tells himself and someone else that they could do so much better than this, not that it helps. The general instrumentation of this song sounds a bit like a clown’s nightmare, which makes perfect sense in context of a song about intense dissatisfaction.
You Haven’t Told Me Anything – This immensely danceable track is another intensely critical song that also contains a great deal of self-criticism, where the narrator sings about the frustration of hearing a lot of negativity in a broken life where the person already knows everything critical and negative that others are telling them. This is yet another song about the frustration of feeling stuck in a rut and not going anywhere.
Perfect Symmetry – This song is the most like the usual synthpop style of Keane’s previous work, and it was an obvious single off of this album. With it’s cold synth it continues the general mood of the album with an almost voyeuristic interest in the pointlessness of life. Ironically, the song seems to present a viewpoint of life as karmic, and pitilessly just. Clearly, there is an absence of hope here, and more gloomy reflection on being stuck in a rut and the fruitless search for love.
You Don’t See Me – This beautiful and haunting ballad is one that I would like to turn into a time-lapsed music video where someone slowly moves through life while everyone around is entirely oblivious to them and rushing about on their business. This song is another melancholy song about caring deeply and paying attention to someone who simply does not want to recognize one’s existence and communicate at all.
Again And Again – This song is a fast-paced but still mopey song about someone speaking in ways that are dishonest and manipulative without caring about the damage they cause to the sensitive soul of the narrator. The song is yet another on this album that talks about frustrated hopes and expectations and going over the same unsatisfactory terrain again and again.
Playing Along – This moody and mostly slow-tempo song is an almost anthemic ode to faking one’s way through life and trying to drown out the sorrow and frustration of life with loud music, appropriately getting louder at some points to demonstrate. The general mood here is one of cynicism towards heroism with a sort of droning melody ending in a chaotic conclusion.
Pretend That You’re Alone – This is another song about pretense, where the narrator attempts to comfort himself with thoughts about evolution and the efforts of his own imagination and the absence of morality. Despite the uptempo music, and the decadent 80’s style beat, the song itself seems rather gloomy and despairing. It is almost as the narrator is desiring to eat and drink and trying to find an escape from life.
Black Burning Heart – This gloomy song reflects on death and blood and isolation and the desire for intimacy despite the extreme pessimism that the narrator feels about life. The author thinks that his memorial will be nothing more than a cenotaph of cloud and that every day is a false start. Even some lovely spoken French cannot deliver this sophisticated piece of midtempo dance pop from extreme gloominess.
Love Is The End – This moody piano ballad, with a somewhat creepy theremin part reflects on life after death, and on the desire for a love to preserve a hope of life even as the narrator seems despondent, without hope whatsoever. The author just trudges along a road he knows goes nowhere in particular, but sings without any sort of joy in the process, except for a sort of desperate longing for genuine love.
As an album, “Perfect Symmetry” has the style of 80’s synth pop, with its disposable “unleaded” sound, but the often upbeat rhythm and music hides an album that is intensely gloomy and morose, almost devoid of hope, with a consistent refrain that the only thing that makes life worth living is love, even if the narrator focuses a bit too exclusively on romantic love in the absence of any kind of hope in divine justice or aid from God in living a better life that is less pointless and more joyous. Still, this album is almost clinical in its portrayal of a life lived without ultimate hope, and it’s not a pretty picture.
Pablo Keane
5つ星のうち5.0
Increíble.
2014年2月26日にスペインでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Si amas el pop/rock británico y buscas música de calidad, sin duda KEANE responde a tu llamada.
Es impresionante ver como CD's como este te ponen "los pelos de punta".
La calidad, diseño y orden de las canciones es, en mi opinión, uno de los puntos fuertes de este álbum.
Es impresionante ver como CD's como este te ponen "los pelos de punta".
La calidad, diseño y orden de las canciones es, en mi opinión, uno de los puntos fuertes de este álbum.
martin
5つ星のうち5.0
ottimo
2013年7月4日にイタリアでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
cd perfetto ad un prezzo conveniente consigliato a tutti quelli che amano la buona musica e non intendono svenarsi per acquistarla