Cause and Effect (Keane album)
2019 album by Keane
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".
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