Usually when you see an album of songs ‘inspired’ by a movie you know the only thing a band was actually ‘inspired’ to do was hand over a half-finished B-side written months before the movie was actually made.

But not so with Jay-Z. Because Jay-Z, you see, has seen an early screening of the new Ridley Scott movie American Gangster, starring Denzel Washington, and liked it so much that he’s decided to make an entire album about it. We’re not sure what it was about the story of a black New York drug dealer who becomes a highly respected businessman that clicked with Jay-Z, but he must have enjoyed American Gangster a lot because the album is coming out in six weeks’ time. It’s high praise indeed for the new movie, because it’s the first time that Jay-Z has based his music around a film for ages – the last time was Annie, which Jay-Z loves and wishes he could star in.

Keane aren’t a band who like being pigeonholed – although that’s got more to do with the combined mass of their giant moon-faces being unable to fit into standard pigeonholes than a need to constantly change musical direction.

But that doesn’t mean that Keane can halt their spectacularly restless creative muse, though. Keane pride themselves on making each new album sound different to ones that came before it so – while Keane’s first album was an experiment in painfully sensitive girlishness that only idiots like, and their second album was an experiment in slightly bleak girlishness that only idiots like – Keane have announced that their next album is going to sound like Dr Dre. Exactly like Dr Dre. They’re even going to wear big gold chains and breakdance and black their faces up and pimp a bitch like all those rappers they saw on that wonderful arts documentary on BBC Four recently.