Blog: THE CULTURE OF ME

To be frank y'all, we're not really fans of either Keane 's melodramatic-piano-pop or Innerpartysystem's nouveau-My Favorite-synth-pop-punk formulas. They just always seemed geared for ears other than ours. But when you combine the two, as in this remix of "Perfect Symmetry" that Innerpartysystem (above) was commissioned to do for Keane prior to their South African dates, the sum of the parts greatly floods the seesaw in one direction. We don't know how it happened, but we cannot stop listening to this song. It's a stuttery, sugar-coated wallop to the skull in six-and-a-half minutes of builds, crashes, "whoa [...]

• Keane - Perfect Symmetry (Innerpartysystem remix)