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What all these people spotted – and what the rest of the world would shortly find out for themselves – was that despite the reference points, Keane's beguilingly beautiful music really wasn't like anything else. Xfm were on the case, too, with Clare Sturgess requesting a session from the band, while a Sunday Times profile noted that Keane were responsible for "three and a half minutes of pure pop loveliness." NME wrote that "Everybody's Changing" was "indisputably mighty" and compared Keane with "'Kid A'-era Radiohead covering A-ha." He declared that Keane were "somewhere between a scuffed Coldplay and a frankly bewildered Beautiful South," hammering the single on his show and eventually calling the band in for a session on BBC 6Music. Steve Lamacq decided that it was one of the best singles in Fierce Panda's entire history – not bad for a label that housed early releases from Coldplay, Idlewild and Supergrass. It would be difficult to find origins more desperately indie, yet "Everybody's Changing" sounded like a Number One chart hit before you even got to the chorus, and it immediately began turning heads.

"And we had to go round to a different house to mix it because the speakers broke."

The song was literally made in a room in someone's house," Tom laughs. "The recording session was a little rough and ready.

They chose "Everybody's Changing," a sweeping, majestic ode to feeling utterly lost when everyone else seems to know the score, which was recorded for zero pence. Fierce Panda mini-mogul Simon Williams caught the Betsey Trotwood gig and asked Keane to put out a single on his label. They booked two acoustic gigs, one at the 12 Bar Club, another at the Betsey Trotwood. In 2002, following several years of experimenting and honing their sound, members Tom Chaplin, Tim Rice-Oxley and Richard Hughes decided that they needed to get out and play live. First established in 1997 at a Hastings Secondary School, Keane is a British piano rock band known for its obvious absenteeism of a guitar player and its dreamy, complex sounds.