''Cause and Effect'' is the fifth studio album by English
alternative rock
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band
Keane, released on 20 September 2019 through
Island Records
Island Records is a multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, anoth ...
. 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
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and
YouTube
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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
Metacritic
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, which assigns a
normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an
average
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score of 68, based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Neil Z. Yeung of
AllMusic
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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
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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
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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
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Richard Hughes – drums, percussion, backing vocals
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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
2019 albums
Island Records albums
Keane (band) albums
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