Cause and Effect (Keane album)

Cause and Effect is the fifth studio album by English alternative rock band Keane, released on 20 September 2019 through Island Records.[1] It is their first full-length album since Strangeland (2012) and hiatus from early 2014 to late 2018.[2] Cause and Effect peaked at No.2 on the UK Albums Chart.[3]

Cause and Effect
Studio album by
Keane
Released20 September 2019
RecordedNovember 2018 – Spring 2019
StudioSea Fog Studios
Length46:02
LabelIsland
ProducerDavid Kosten and Keane
Keane chronology
The Best of Keane
(2013)		 Cause and Effect
(2019)		 Dirt (EP)
(2021)
Singles from Cause and Effect
  1. "The Way I Feel"
    Released: 6 June 2019
  2. "Love Too Much"
    Released: 8 August 2019
  3. "Stupid Things"
    Released: 24 October 2019

Promotion

The first single, "The Way I Feel", premiered on 6 June 2019 on BBC Radio 2 and YouTube.[4]

The second single, "Love Too Much", premiered on 8 August 2019 on BBC Radio 2 and YouTube.[5]

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?6.2/10[6]
Metacritic68/100[7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[8]
The Arts Desk[9]
The Daily Telegraph[10]
Evening Standard[11]
Financial Times[12]
The Guardian[13]
The Independent[14]
NME[15]
Q[16]
The Times[17]

Cause and Effect received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 68, based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[7]

Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic 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."[8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Keane

No.TitleLength
1."You're Not Home"5:31
2."Love Too Much"3:09
3."The Way I Feel"4:06
4."Put the Radio On"4:11
5."Strange Room"4:23
6."Stupid Things"3:48
7."Phases"3:36
8."I'm Not Leaving"4:13
9."Thread"4:51
10."Chase the Night Away"4:03
11."I Need Your Love"4:11
Total length:46:02
Deluxe edition additional tracks
No.TitleLength
12."New Golden Age"3:44
13."Difficult Year"3:28
14."The Way I Feel" (Sea Fog acoustic session)3:35
15."Stupid Things" (Sea Fog acoustic session)4:02
16."I'm Not Leaving" (Sea Fog acoustic session)4:09
Japanese bonus track[18]
No.TitleLength
17."Thread" (original demo)5:08
Total length:70:18
Retroactive CD
No.TitleLength
1."Somewhere Only We Know" (Sprint Music Series, 2003) 
2."Bedshaped" (live at Roundhouse Studios, 2013) 
3."Spiralling" (2008 demo) 
4."Silenced by the Night" (Sea Fog acoustic session, 2012) 
5."Again and Again" (2007 demo) 
6."In Your Own Time" (2010 demo) 
7."Glass Bottles" (unreleased demo) 
8."Better Than This" (2007 demo) 
9."Strangeland" (Dallas Sketch, 2011) 
10."The Lovers Are Losing" (2008 demo) 
11."This Is the Last Time" (Real Network Session, Seattle 2014) 
12."Sunshine" (2002 demo) 

Personnel

Keane

Charts
Chart (2019) Peak
position
Australian Digital Albums (ARIA)[19] 25
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[20] 56
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[21] 15
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[22] 9
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[23] 11
French Albums (SNEP)[24] 61
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[25] 16
Irish Albums (IRMA)[26] 12
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[27] 141
Scottish Albums (OCC)[28] 2
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[29] 9
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[30] 18
UK Albums (OCC)[31] 2
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[32] 15

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[33] Silver 60,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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