English stadium rockers Keane have announced on their website that they will be releasing an expanded version of their debut album, Hopes and Fears, in early November. This special release features the band’s early BBC Radio1 sessions with Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley, demos, and some of their earliest released songs, including tracks from a live EP released in 2005. Championing the band early on, Lamacq contributes the text for the album’s liner notes as well.
The full tracklisting of the expanded edition is as follows:
CD ONE
01. Somewhere Only We Know
02. Bend And Break
03. We Might As Well Be Strangers
04. Everybody’s Changing
05. Your Eyes Open
06. She Has No Time
07. Can’t Stop Now
08. Sunshine
09. This Is The Last Time
10. On A Day Like Today
11 Untitled 1
12. Bedshaped
13. Somewhere Only We Know (Lamacq Live)
14. Bedshaped (Lamacq Live)
15. Bend And Break (Lamacq Live)
16. We Might As Well Be Strangers (Lamacq Live)
17. This Is The Last Time (Jo Whiley Live Lounge)
18. With Or Without You (Jo Whiley Live Lounge)
19. A Heart To Hold You (Jo Whiley Live Lounge)
CD TWO
01. Snowed Under (B-Side)
02. We Might As Well Be Strangers (DJ Shadow Remix)
03. Into The Light Demo (Unreleased)
04. Call Me What You Like Demo (Zoomorphic single 1)
05. Closer Now (Zoomorphic single 1)
06. Rubbernecking (Zoomorphic single 1)
07. Wolf At The Door (Zoomorphic single 2)
08. She Has No Time Demo (Zoomorphic single 2)
09. Call Me What You Like (Zoomorphic single 2)
10. Everybody’s Changing (Fierce Panda single 1)
11. The Way You Want It (Fierce Panda single 1)
12. This Is The Last Time Demo (Fierce Panda single 2)
13. Bedshaped Demo (Fierce Panda single 2)
14. Allemande (Fierce Panda single 2)
15. Somewhere Only We Know (Live E.P. released 3/5/05)
16. We Might As Well Be Strangers (Live E.P. released 3/5/05)
17. This Is The Last Time (Live E.P. released 3/5/05)
18. Everybody’s Changing (Live E.P. released 3/5/05)
This expanded edition of Hopes and Fears marks the final of Island Records’ Island 50 series commemorating the record label’s 50th anniversary. The album will drop on November 6 in the UK and can be pre-ordered from the band’s official online store. Also available at the store are t-shirts and a very limited number of special edition art prints signed by the band.
Keane: website | myspace | @ DAR Constitution Hall with the Helio Sequence and Mat Kearney
