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. 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.

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

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, 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".

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."

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