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"Atlantic" is a song performed and composed by English piano rock and alternative band Keane and is featured on their second studio album, Under the Iron Sea as the opening track. The cover of the album is also the illustration representing the song in the inner pages of the book-shaped CD+DVD edition.
Track listingiTunes video
UK 7" Vinyl
Composition, recording and musical structureComposition and recording"Atlantic" was composed by Tim Rice-Oxley circa 2005 and recorded at the Helioscentric Studios, Rye, East Sussex and at the Magic Shop, New York. First demos featured Rice-Oxley instead of Chaplin on the lead vocals. The first verse, lyrically was different to the final version. Sessions at the Magic Shop for the recording of this song were filmed and released on the Under the Iron Sea DVD. The video for Atlantic was filmed at a remote location in a beach in East Sussex. The recording appearing on this single is two minutes longer that the one on the album. Musical structureThe first rhodes under the BMaj7 chord are played with Rice-Oxley's electric piano instrumentally. After 30 seconds, the bass and drums are added. Within 59 seconds, the shorter version appearing on the albums starts (running 19 seconds on that version). The weird intro of the drums was a particular reason for Rice-Oxley to include it on the album. Chaplin vocals are then introduced, without drums for 16 beats. Clocking 3:27 on the video and 2:32 on the album, the song drastically changes its tone to introduce the chorus and the final part, converting automatically the song in a ballad. While the album version fades with strings, the video version incorporates the outro of "The Iron Sea", with strange and electronic sounds including echoes and voices.
Information about song's meaningAudio samples:
According to Keane fansite, Keane.at, "This song talks about newly-wed Rice-Oxley feelings about his relationship."
Music videoImage:Atlantickeane.jpg Screenshot from Atlantic video Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
The video for Atlantic was directed by Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh. The black and white video starts with scenes of the Atlantic Ocean and a beach at Sussex. Suddenly a long-bearded man comes out of the ocean. He walks quietly in direction to the beach. Then, he sees two people tying a sheet of paper and getting it into a bottle before they throw it to the sea. The man continues walking to find a boy playing soccer. Suddenly his ball rebounded in the cliff and felt on the water. He asks the man to go for it but the man refuses. The boy kicks the man and runs away. When the man recovers he continues walking. He sees a fat woman with a lifesaver. The woman throws herself to the sea. Suddenly the woman disappears leaving the lifesaver. The man is impressed and looks for a person. He finds an old man. The old man has a machine to look for something in the sand. Digging, they found a dead bird and the old man runs away shortly before the first man. When the chorus leads in, the man finds two boys building a sand castle, just before they destroyed it. The final scenes show three men (representing Keane) throwing two bottle into the sea. When the man turns around, he sees a man with a dark hood representing the Death. The man loses himself into the Death's eyes. Immediately, for two seconds every person in the video appears. On the final shot the Death carries away all the people appearing in the video. Spoilers end here.
Cover artThe cover artwork for the single was designed by Sanna Annuka Smith, a Finnish artist in May 2006. Chart performance
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