At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 60 based on 17 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews". Strangeland received generally mixed reviews from music critics.
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Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores You write a lot of shit songs to get to the good ones." Tom Chaplin also said the sound of the album is reminiscent of earlier Keane, calling Perfect Symmetry "a bit self-indulgent". He'd also done stuff with Radiohead and produced the second Howling Bells album, which I loved." Ĭompared to Keane's previous full-length studio album Perfect Symmetry (2008), the album focuses more on songwriting: "We wanted it be less production led and focus on making sure that the songs were great. According to Rice-Oxley, the album is inspired by The Vaccines' album What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? (2011), which was produced by Grech-Marguerat: "We loved what Dan Grech did on The Vaccines album. The producer said the band wanted to " back to the songwriting of their first two albums", while making an album that sounded "rich and simpler". In May 2011 the band met up with English producer Dan Grech-Marguerat, who according to Tim Rice-Oxley is "a massive Keane fan". Keane began working on demo tracks for Strangeland in 2010.
Pianist Tim Rice-Oxley, on the album's themes" (But) it's a more hopeful record than it might sound!" Pretty much every song on the album is about that. The title track is about setting off in a certain path in life and thinking it's going to go one way, but finding out life's taken a detour.
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