''Cause and Effect'' is the fifth studio album by English

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band Keane, released on 20 September 2019 through Island Records. It is their first full-length album since '' Strangeland'' (2012) and hiatus from early 2014 to late 2018. Cause and Effect peaked at No.2 on the UK Albums Chart, being held off the top spot by Liam Gallagher.

Promotion

The first single, "The Way I Feel", premiered on 6 June 2019 on BBC Radio 2 and

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. The second single, "Love Too Much", premiered on 8 August 2019 on BBC Radio 2 and YouTube.

Critical reception

''Cause and Effect'' received generally positive reviews from critics. At

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, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an

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score of 68, based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Neil Z. Yeung of

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gave the album three and a half stars out of five, writing, "Not a game-changing comeback by any means, ''Cause and Effect'' is instead a satisfying return to form that manages to gracefully age Keane by invigorating a familiar formula with wisdom and honesty learned over a dramatic, life-changing decade."

Track listing

Personnel

Keane *

Tom Chaplin Thomas Oliver Chaplin (born 8 March 1979) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and composer, best known as the lead singer of the English pop rock band Keane. Early life Thomas Oliver Chaplin was born in Hastings, East Sussex, to Sally and ...

– vocals *

Tim Rice-Oxley Timothy James Rice-Oxley (born 2 June 1976) is an English musician, best known for being the keyboardist, singer and songwriter of the pop rock band Keane. In 2010, he formed a side-project, Mt. Desolation, with his Keane bandmate Jesse Quin ...

– piano, keyboards, backing vocals * Richard Hughes – drums, percussion, backing vocals *

Jesse Quin Jesse Joseph Quin (born 3 September 1981) is an English multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and producer best known as the bass player of the British pop rock band Keane. Jesse also founded and runs an arts centre on an abandoned U.S. Air ...

– bass guitar, keyboards backing vocals

Charts

Certifications

References

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