Cause and Effect (Keane album)

Cause and Effect
Keane - Cause and Effect.png
Studio album by
Released20 September 2019
StudioSea Fog Studios
Genre
Length46:04
LabelIsland
ProducerDavid Kosten and Keane
Keane chronology
The Best of Keane
(2013)
Cause and Effect
(2019)
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

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]

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
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?6.2/10[5]
Metacritic68/100[6]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic3.5/5 stars[7]
The Daily Telegraph4/5 stars[8]
Financial Times3/5 stars[9]
The Guardian3/5 stars[10]
The Independent3/5 stars[11]
NME3/5 stars[12]
Q4/5 stars[13]
The Times4/5 stars[14]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, Cause and Effect received an average score of 68, based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[6]

Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic gave the album a positive review, 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.TitleLength
1."You're Not Home"5:31
2."Love Too Much"3:09
3."The Way I Feel"4:05
4."Put the Radio On"4:11
5."Strange Room"4:23
6."Stupid Things"3:49
7."Phases"3:36
8."I'm Not Leaving"4:14
9."Thread"4:52
10."Chase the Night Away"4:03
11."I Need Your Love"4:11
Total length:46:04

Personnel

Keane

Charts

Chart (2019) Peak
position
Australian Digital Albums (ARIA)[15] 25
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[16] 56
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[17] 15
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[18] 9
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[19] 11
French Albums (SNEP)[20] 61
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[21] 16
Irish Albums (IRMA)[22] 12
Scottish Albums (OCC)[23] 2
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[24] 9
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[25] 18
UK Albums (OCC)[26] 2
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[27] 15

References

  1. ^ "Keane announce Dublin and Belfast gigs and new album". Rte.ie. 6 June 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Cause and Effect - Keane | User Reviews". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ [2]
  5. ^ "Cause & Effect by Keane reviews". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Cause and Effect by Keane Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  7. ^ a b Yeung, Neil Z. "Cause and Effect - Keane". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  8. ^ McCormick, Neil (19 September 2019). "Cause and Effect, Keane review: an album of strange beauty from a sadder, wiser band". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  9. ^ Hunter-Tilney, Ludovic (20 September 2019). "Keane: Cause and Effect — themes of middle-aged crisis". Financial Times. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  10. ^ Aroesti, Rachel (20 September 2019). "Keane: Cause and Effect review – even a jaunty indie quartet can have a mid-life crisis". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  11. ^ White, Adam; O'Connor, Roisin (19 September 2019). "Album reviews: Liam Gallagher – Why Me? Why Not. and Keane – Cause and Effect". The Independent. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  12. ^ Richards, Will (13 September 2019). "Keane – 'Cause And Effect' review". NME. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  13. ^ Aizlewood, John. "Keane: Cause & Effect". Q. No. 404 (November 2019 ed.). p. 112.
  14. ^ Hodgkinson, Will (20 September 2019). "Keane: Cause and Effect review — comforting, elegant and uplifting". The Times. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  15. ^ "ARIA Australian Top 50 Digital Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. 30 September 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  16. ^ "Austriancharts.at – Keane – Cause and Effect" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  17. ^ "Ultratop.be – Keane – Cause and Effect" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  18. ^ "Ultratop.be – Keane – Cause and Effect" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  19. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Keane – Cause and Effect" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  20. ^ "Le Top de la semaine : Top Albums Fusionnes – SNEP (Week 39, 2019)" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  21. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Keane – Cause and Effect" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  22. ^ "Post Malone edges out Liam Gallagher in incredibly close battle for this week's Number 1 album". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  23. ^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  24. ^ "Top 100 Albumes – Semana 39: del 20.9.2019 al 26.9.2019" (in Spanish). Productores de Música de España. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  25. ^ "Swisscharts.com – Keane – Cause and Effect". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  26. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  27. ^ "Keane Chart History (Top Alternative Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 5 October 2019.

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