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
Studio album by Keane
Released	20 September 2019
Studio	Sea Fog Studios
Genre	Alternative rock pop rock indie rock
Length	46:02
Label	Island
Producer	David Kosten and Keane
Keane chronology
The Best of Keane (2013) Cause and Effect (2019)
Singles from Cause and Effect
"The Way I Feel" Released: 6 June 2019 "Love Too Much" Released: 8 August 2019 "Stupid Things" Released: 24 October 2019 "I'm Not Leaving" Released: 1 May 2020 "Phases" Released: 26 October 2020

Promotion

The first single, "The Way I Feel", premiered on 6 June 2019 on BBC Radio 2 and YouTube.[3]

The second single, "Love Too Much", premiered on 8 August 2019 on BBC Radio 2 and YouTube.[4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	6.2/10[5]
Metacritic	68/100[6]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
The Arts Desk	[8]
The Daily Telegraph	[9]
Evening Standard	[10]
Financial Times	[11]
The Guardian	[12]
The Independent	[13]
NME	[14]
Q	[15]
The Times	[16]

Cause and Effect received mixed to 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".[6]

In a positive review, Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5, 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."[7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Keane.

No.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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[17]

No.	Title	Length
17.	"Thread" (original demo)	5:08
Total length:		70:18

Retroactive CD

No.	Title	Length
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

• Tom Chaplin – vocals
• Tim Rice-Oxley – piano, keyboards, backing vocals
• Richard Hughes – drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Jesse Quin – bass guitar, backing vocals

Charts

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

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[32]	Silver	60,000
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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