Night Train (EP)

Night Train is an EP^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]} by English rock band Keane.^[9] The EP's title and material was born out of the group's Perfect Symmetry World Tour of 2008–2009.

Night Train
EP by Keane
Released	10 May 2010[1]
Recorded	2009–10
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	31:24
Label	Island Cherrytree Interscope
Producer	Tim Rice-Oxley
Keane chronology
Perfect Symmetry (2008) Night Train (2010) Strangeland (2012)
Singles from Night Train
"Stop for a Minute" Released: 5 April 2010[2]

Night Train debuted at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart.^[10]

Recording

The EP was recorded in various studios during the Perfect Symmetry World tour, and mastered at Abbey Road Studios. Tracks "Stop for a Minute" and "Looking Back" mark Keane's collaboration with Somali/Canadian rapper K'Naan.^[11] "I think those tracks show us in a completely different light," says Keane frontman Tom Chaplin. "Your Love" features Tim Rice-Oxley on lead vocals.^[11] On 3 February, it was confirmed that the lead single for the EP would be "Stop for a Minute".^[12] On 8 March 2010 the song "Clear Skies" was played by Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music radio station, making it the first song of the EP to be played on radio.^[13] On 11 March 2010 the first single from the EP, "Stop for a Minute", made its debut on Fearne Cotton's BBC Radio 1 show.^[14] The song reached the UK Top 40.

Keane's London-based manager Adam Tudhope says the EP "may be a mix of styles and genres of music, but it's full of the hallmarks that make Keane..."^[11]

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	59/100[15]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[16]
Entertainment Weekly	B−[17]
musicOMH	[18]
NME	3/10[19]
Pitchfork	3.0/10[20]
PopMatters	6/10[21]
Q	[22]
Rolling Stone	[23]
Slant Magazine	[24]
Spin	7/10[25]

Night Train has been met with mixed reviews from critics. Ryan Brockington of the New York Post's PopWrap called the work, "game changing" while writing that the first single, "Stop for a Minute", is "just as brilliant" as the album.^[26]

John Aizlewood of Q magazine called Night Train's "8 tracks and 31 minutes... surprisingly effective between-albums stop-gap".^[22]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"House Lights"	1:23
2.	"Back in Time"	3:52
3.	"Stop for a Minute" (featuring K'naan)	4:06
4.	"Clear Skies"	4:53
5.	"Ishin Denshin (You've Got to Help Yourself)" (featuring Tigarah)	3:56
6.	"Your Love"	4:36
7.	"Looking Back" (featuring K'naan)	3:46
8.	"My Shadow"	4:49
Total length:		31:24

Personnel

Keane

• Tom Chaplin: lead vocals, guitar
• Tim Rice-Oxley: keyboards, bass guitar, guitar, percussion, lead vocals (track 6), backing vocals
• Richard Hughes: drums, percussion, backing vocals

Additional Musicians

• Jesse Quin: bass guitar, guitar, backing vocals
• Jerry Clack: brass (track 7)
• Roland Neffe: vibraphone (track 4)
• K'naan: vocals (tracks 3 and 7)
• Tigarah: vocals (track 5)

Charts and certifications

The Night Train EP debuted on the UK Albums Chart on 16 May 2010 at number one with sales of 28,000 copies.^[27] The Album is certified Silver in UK selling over 60,000 copies and has sold worldwide over 160,000 copies to date.

Charts Chart (2010) Peak position Belgian Flanders Albums Chart[28] 27 Belgian Wallonia Albums Chart[28] 12 Canadian Albums Chart[29] 19 Dutch Albums Chart[30] 9 European Albums Chart 4 French Albums Chart 45 Greek Albums Chart[31] 3 Irish Albums Chart[32] 15 Italian Albums Chart[33] 4 Japanese Oricon albums chart[34] 144 Mexican Albums Chart[35] 23 Spanish Albums Chart[36] 12 Swedish Albums Chart 42 Swiss Albums Chart 23 UK Albums Chart[10] 1 US Billboard 200[29] 25

Sales and certifications Country Sales Certification United Kingdom 60,000+ Silver Worldwide 160,000+

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