Keane - Perfect Symmetry

What this video is

Released in late 2008 during a broad wave of 1980s aesthetic rehabilitation across British indie and alternative music, the 'Perfect Symmetry' video arrives at a moment of deliberate reinvention for Keane. The album represented a marked departure from the band's signature piano-ballad sound toward synthesizers, electronic textures, and influences from David Bowie, U2, and 1980s synth-pop. The video's theatrical…

Why it matters

Represents a key artifact of 2000s British indie rock's encounter with 1980s synth-pop revivalism, demonstrating how established post-Britpop acts used visual reinvention — theatrical set design, bold colour, conceptual symmetry — to signal sonic pivots. The video's approach anticipates the more…