Keane, in a desperate attempt to rise from the depths of nothingness, have released yet another single from their 2008 album ‘Perfect Symmetry’ which topped the album of the year chart in the similarly uninspired and repetitive Q magazine .  Better Than This, the fourth single from the album is due to be released in March to the delights of Q readers countrywide.

The song itself starts off with hand claps and overly modulated synths, shortly followed by hits of Tom Chaplin’s grating falsetto vocals. Then it hits me,  this song is not a Keane song at all, in fact it sounds just like Robbie Williams...not from the good era, but from his miserably poor comeback album ‘Rudebox’. There isn’t really much more depth to the song for me to comment upon...

I would love to say that Keane could do so much better than this (...did you see what I did there? clever me) but in fact they can’t. It’s just more bland trash from one of the least exciting British acts of the Noughties so far. We can only hope that they follow Robbie’s example and move abroad to live a life of solitude and self loathing, only releasing new singles to pay for Tom Chaplin’s coke habit.