Cause And Effect

Keane has created their most focused, emotionally resonant, and sonically adventurous album yet.

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.

The band still has its propensity for manufacturing emotionally heavy pop songs with a noticeably blatant, but at times more subtly underlying layer of misery and sadness, lurking beneath the optimistic surface.

The Radio 2-friendly band's first album in seven years is a cosy reminder that they have had four consecutive UK Number One records, but there's experimentation too.

Moving from innocence to experience, the formerly insipid indie rockers show off their emotional arsenal.

Cause and Effect isn’t Keane breaking any new ground, but in the quieter moments it’s surprisingly good.

Keane’s latest effort, Cause and Effect, continues their thread of moving, accessible modern rock, the name itself just as forthright as anything else in their catalog.

Keane has always straddled the line between contemporary “adult pop” and something indie-er, but Cause and Effect basically foregoes the latter.