''Keep You Close'' is the sixth studio album by Belgian

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band

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. It was released in

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on 17 September 2011, in mainland Europe on 19 September and in the

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on 3 October. On its first day of release, the album was certified gold in Belgium for sales of 10,000 copies. It was eventually certified platinum on 7 October 2011, denoting sales in excess of 20,000 copies.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of ''Keep You Close''. Deus *

Tom Barman Thomas Andrew Barman (born 1 January 1972), is a Belgian musician and film director. Barman studied at the film school of St.-Lucas in Brussels, but did not finish his studies because he wished to pursue a career in music. In 1989, he began by ...

– vocals, guitar, keyboards * Klaas Janzoons – violin, keyboards, vocals, percussion, string arrangements * Stéphane Misseghers – drums, percussion, vocals, keyboards *

Mauro Pawlowski Mauro Antonio Pawlowski (born 24 April 1971) is one of the key figures in the Belgian contemporary music scene. He was born in Koersel and is of Italian and Polish descent. He started his career as frontman of Evil Superstars in 1992. This grou ...

– guitar, vocals, keyboards, string arrangements * Alan Gevaert – bass, vocals, guitar, mandolin Additional personnel * Els Becu –

marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

, vibraphone * Dick Beetham – mastering * Jon Birdsong –

bugle The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments, normally having no valves or other pitch-altering devices. All pitch control is done by varying the player's embouchure. History The bugle developed from early musical or communication ...

, horns, trumpet *

C. J. Bolland Christian Jay "C. J." Bolland (born 18 June 1971, Stockton-on-Tees, England) is an English-Belgian electronic music producer and remixer with British roots. Born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, Bolland's family moved to Antwerp in Flan ...

– additional programming, additional recording * Esmé Bos – backing vocals *

David Bottrill David Bottrill is a Canadian record producer. He has won three Grammys. Formerly, he owned Rattlebox Studios in Toronto, Ontario with producer Brian Moncarz. Moneen, Basia Lyjak, and The Getaway Plan are among the artists to have recorded at th ...

– production * Stefan Bracaval – extended flutes *

Greg Dulli Greg Dulli (born May 11, 1965) is an American musician from Hamilton, Ohio. Debuting as a member of the rock band the Afghan Whigs in 1986, Dulli has been a member of the Twilight Singers, Gutter Twins, and in 2020 released his debut solo albu ...

– vocals * Olaf Heine – band photography * Anton Janssens –

Rhodes piano The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, t ...

* Roos Janssens – backing vocals * Trijn Janssens – backing vocals * Sabine Kabongo – backing vocals * Mark Steylaerts Ensemble – strings * Adam Noble – co-production, engineering, mixing * Matthew Oates – cover photography * Charlotte Timmers – backing vocals * Uber and Kosher – artwork * Piet Van Bockstal – oboe * Bram Van Houtte – engineering assistance *

Tim Vanhamel Tim Wessel Vanhamel (born 11 December 1977 in Zonhoven, Belgium) is a Belgium, Belgian Rock music, rock musician who has been a member of and performed with a number of bands including Evil Superstars, Deus (band), Deus and Eagles of Death Metal. ...

– vocals

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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