Keane return after a six year hiatus with a brand new single and album!
British group Keane are back with a brand new album “Cause And Effect”, their first fresh work for seven years, together with a brand new single and a reflective video for “Love Too Much”, which has been released today on Island Records. Formed in Sussex in 1995, it took Tom Chaplin, Tim Rice-Oxley and Richard Hughes another nine years before they won audience and critical approval with their singles “Somewhere Only We Know” and “Everybody’s Changing” taken from the seven million-plus selling album “Hopes And Fears”.
Keane originated as a four piece band with guitarist Dominic Scott who played live sets across Southern England and released two singles in 2000 before Scott left the group the following year. Since then, reduced to a threesome, Keane built a strong following on both sides of the Atlantic as well as across Europe and further afield, winning two Brit Awards, an Ivor Novello and two Grammy nominations. Their second long player “Under The Iron Sea” in 2006 quickly gained triple Platinum certification in the UK for sales of 900,000 copies as well as a Gold certification in America and featured the singles “Is It Any Wonder?”, “Crystal Ball” and “Nothing In My Way”.
Jessie Quinn joined the group in 2007 for the recording of their third album “Perfect Symmetry”, released the following year and selling over 900,000 copies. The album featured the singles “Spiralling” and “The Lovers Are Losing”. Their most recent studio album “Strangeland” came in 2012 which was preceded by the single “Silenced By The Night”, which was followed by a “Best Of” in 2013. Although the group have largely been silent for some years, they released the singles “Tear Up This Town” in 2014 and “The Night Sky”, a song originally recorded and scheduled for release in 2007. Ten years later in 2017, Keane released the track digitally for the War Child charity, helping post-conflict children in areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
All four band members have not been so quiet in the years since “Strangeland”, all working on solo projects with Rice-Oxley and Quinn forming the duo Mt. Desolation in 2010 and releasing two studio albums. Rice-Oxley has also found additional success as a songwriter, composing lyrics for artists like Gwen Stefani (“Early Winter”), Kylie Minogue (“Everything Is Beautiful“), Gary Barlow (“Jump”) and Travis (“Magnificent Time”). Chaplin released two solo albums in 2016 and 2017, while drummer Hughes has ploughed much of his time into charitable causes as well as being a human rights activist for Amnesty International.
“Cause And Effect” is released on 20th September and has already seen the release of the track “The Way I Feel”. The album has been produced by David Kosten aka Faultline, who has produced Marian and The Diamonds singer Marina Diamandis 2015 album “Froot” and worked with the likes of Coldplay, The Flaming Lips and R.E.M. Keane hit the road this Autumn and Winter across the UK, Mexico and The USA in support of the album with many dates already sold out and others with only limited seats available. If you want to see the band play live for the first time in six years, click here for dates and to book!
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