Keane reveal new album details

The band spent time "throwing ideas around" in Berlin

Rock band Keane have announced that their third album Perfect Symmetry will be released on 13 October.

In a posting on their website they revealed that the album was recorded this summer in Paris, Berlin, London and Los Angeles.

The band said: "We've been lost in a world of new music over the last few months" and added that they were "very very, proud" of the record.

Perfect Symmetry is the follow-up to 2006 album Under The Iron Sea.

'Rules of good taste'

Talking about the influences behind the album, the band said: "We started out in Paris, where Jon Brion inspired us to create first and think later.

"We took the night train to Berlin, where everything came together in an avalanche of experimentation that took us all by surprise, and where we made a pact with Stuart Price to ignore the rules of good taste.

"We've hidden ourselves away in the depths of the English countryside, recorded a new track in London at the last possible moment, and now we're in Los Angeles tying up the loose ends."

As well as Under The Iron Sea, Keane also released Hopes And Fears, which became one of the biggest sellers of 2004.

The band cancelled their North American tour in 2006 to allow singer Tom Chaplin time to complete treatment for alcohol and drug addiction.