Well, this cover song is certainly timely.

As you may have heard today, Keane has announced their breakup ahead of the release of their best-of, coming November 11. After 16 years together, singer Tom Chaplin has plans to record a solo album, while main songwriter Tim Rice-Oxley will utilize his talents for outside artists. The remaining two members of the English quartet, Richard Hughes and Jesse Quin, are going somewhere only they know.

As it happens, Norway’s Limbic Void (aka Gustav Espenes) sent me a note yesterday regarding a cover he’d done of Keane’s “Everybody’s Changing.” The song, which appears on the band’s 2004 debut, Hopes And Fears, was released as the set’s second single though it was originally issued by Keane prior to landing a major-label deal.

“Almost ten years ago, upon its entrance into the pop charts, I was asked to perform this song at a sizable event,” Gus explains. “I declined, but ever since I’ve been wondering what my own version would sound like. So in between working on new tracks, I decided to have a go at a cover version. Too old to be fresh and too new to be old-school, here’s my attempt at conveying Keane’s ‘Everybody’s Changing.'”

While the song’s status does fall squarely in the middle (much like Keane, come to think of it), Limbic Void’s sparkling synthpop cover of “Everybody’s Changing” (think OMD meets M83) begins to crystallize the band’s legacy. While Keane ultimately couldn’t stay in the game — everybody is changing — they leave behind a none-too-shabby body of work that other artists might someday be inspired to interpret, joining Limbic Void and Annie Lennox, who covered the B-side “Closer Now” on her own best-of, retitling it “Pattern Of My Life.”

Free download of Limbic Void – “Everybody’s Changing” (Keane cover) via SoundCloud.