CAUSE AND EFFECT
Art Cover
Le design de l’album a été créé à partir de collages de photos, la plupart de Jesse et Richard : « Some (pictures in the cover) are mine, some Jesse’s but some others too. Credits have a full list of contributors, but needless to say most are very personal to us. » (Richard on Keane’s Twitter, 21 septembre 2019)
- You’re Not Home
- Love Too Much
- The Way I Feel
- Put the Radio On
- Strange Room
- Stupid Things
- Phases
- I’m Not Leaving
- Thread
- Chase the Night Away
- I Need Your Love
- New Golden Age (Bonus Track)
- Difficult Year (Bonus Track)
Date de sortie internationale : 20 septembre 2019
Notes : La version deluxe comprends les bonus tracks, et des versions acoustiques de The Way I Feel, Stupid Things et I’m Not Leaving au studio Sea Fog. La version japonaise comprend la démo originale de Thread.
La tournée Cause and Effect a été stoppée par la pandémie Covid-19 en mars 2020.
Les deux derniers singles n’ont donc pas vu le jour (I’m Not Leaving prévu le 1er mai 2020, et Phases prévu le 26 Octobre 2020), selon Wikipedia UK.
VERSION SUPER DELUXE
Tracklist : Il inclut le CD Deluxe + la version Vinyle LP 12 » noire + la version Bonus Tracks 10 » bleue + le Retroactive CD
Retroactive EP1
- Somewhere Only We Know [Sprint Music Series, 2003]
- Bedshaped [Live At Roundhouse Studios, 2013]
- Spiralling [Demo, 2008]
- Silenced By The Night [Sea Fog Acoustic Session, 2012]
Retroactive EP2
- Again And Again [Demo, 2007]
- In Your Own Time [Demo, 2010]
- Glass Bottles [Unreleased Demo, 2011]
- Better Than This [Demo, 2007]
Retroactive EP3
- Strangeland [Dallas Sketch, 2011]
- The Lovers Are Losing [Demo, 2008]
- This Is The Last Time [Real Network Session, Seattle 2014]
- Sunshine [Demo, 2002]
Date de sortie : 20 septembre 2019
Notes : Certaines versions contiennent également une photo signée du groupe. Le contenu est visible sur Youtube.
SINGLE – THE WAY I FEEL
Date de sortie : 6 juin 2019
Notes : Le single a été diffusé sur les radios et sur Youtube. Il n’y avait pas de copie physique disponible à la vente.
SINGLE – LOVE TOO MUCH
Date de sortie : 8 août 2019
Notes : Le single a été diffusé sur les radios et sur Youtube. Il n’y avait pas de copie physique disponible à la vente.
SINGLE – STUPID THINGS
Date de sortie : 24 Octobre 2019
Notes : Le single a été diffusé sur les radios et sur Youtube. Il n’y avait pas de copie physique disponible à la vente.
Chansons
PAROLES Rice-Oxley/Chaplin/Hughes/Quin The click of the front door Hear voices recede and your fingers slip from my hand And it’s cold, cold, cold, cold, cold I love that silver-grey first morning light And it’s cold, cold, cold, cold, cold I love that silver-grey first morning light I love that silver-grey first morning light No, you’re not home | A PROPOS “It’s about the feeling of being in an empty house that used to feel much more like a home, and how terrifying that can be. We wanted to really create an atmosphere with it. David Kosten, who produced the record, was referencing Björk and Peter Gabriel. It starts with atmospheric leaps that almost appear random, like a collision of stars. It gives you an interesting contrast. It just builds and builds, then you have a huge drop that’s like an emotional outpouring. By the time you get to the end of that song, you’ve been on an emotional rollercoaster—and it’s only the first track. We wanted to turn people on to the drama of the record.” (Tim, Apple Music) |
PAROLES Rice-Oxley/Chaplin/Hughes Only want to say that I gave it all I had Felt it all When we make mistakes Want it all Then we love too much And our purest dreams Got it all Then we love too much Nothing can take that away from me And the purest dreams Feel it all Then we love too much | A PROPOS “That’s one of the most pop-influenced songs on the record. I was listening to a lot of Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, and Ariana Grande, thinking a lot about that groove, but also about the rhythm of the piece. I wrote it early one morning and thought it obviously was pretty catchy. I wanted it to feel meaningful, not be this throwaway thing. I was trying to write about how romance can be really intense. Sometimes it gets so intense that it destroys itself. Like all the songs on this record, it’s a little look at some aspect of the journey that I’ve been on in the last seven years since my marriage broke down. I think it’s something that a lot of people can relate to. When you feel stuff that intensely, it can leave you feeling totally disoriented and lost when it goes away. The truth is, that experience enriches your life in a way that you’re never going to lose. It’s really important to hang on to that sometimes.” (Tim, Apple Music) |
PAROLES Rice-Oxley/Chaplin/Hughes Well they said you were a bright child And it’s the voices in your head now And it’s not what you expected And it’s the voices in your head now And everyone else has got things sorted out And it’s not what you expected And it’s the voices in your head now It’s like some vision in the stars that seems so real | A PROPOS “A real favorite of ours. I wanted to gather some of the psychological stuff that comes from life taking a left turn. Like, ‘I just want to be normal. I just want to be the same as everyone else and know why I feel this way about love, or about myself, or about anything.’ The message of the song is very sympathetic and trying to say that everybody has shit going on. The way you feel is the way you feel. That’s totally valid. I think it’s really important for people to hear that and try and understand that about ourselves and about each other.” (Tim, Apple Music)
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PAROLES Rice-Oxley/Chaplin/Hughes You tell a lie, I’ll tell one too Shut all the blinds, hang a sign on the door Put the radio on Don’t have time to listen to my mind Maybe I’m just dreaming (Put the radio on) Put the radio on | A PROPOS We really spent a lot of time thinking about the journey of the album. It’s not chronological, but it’s almost psychological. For me, ‘Put the Radio On,’ ‘Strange Room,’ and ‘Stupid Things’ are a trio of songs that tell little stories about me and about my relationship. ‘Put the Radio On” is almost like a jam, this hypnotic, cyclical groove. The first three minutes of the song has only one chord in it, which is the very opposite of a melodic key approach. It’s basically about illicit sex, like getting sucked into a moat that you know is a battle, but you’ll slide down into it. You can’t stop yourself, and it’s about the beauty and darkness in it. The second half of the song is more romantic, just reveling in the genius of those moments in life.” (Tim, Apple Music) |
PAROLES Rice-Oxley/Chaplin/Hughes A pint set on the piano A church to praise the good times For a moment I was dreaming Officer, let me explain I know you’re too young to I woke up in a strange room For a moment I was dreaming | A PROPOS “A very romantic song. I had this really lovely group of friends down in Sussex where I live in the UK. We’d get together at my apartment and sing songs together. That was a really important support network for me after I was first on my own. Then the landlord of a local pub had to move away. On the night of his leaving party at the pub, I drank way too much. I stupidly, stupidly drove my car and crashed into a ditch just up the road. I got arrested and spent a few hours in a prison cell. I was just like, ‘Holy shit. How’d this happen? What am I doing? This is not me at all.’ It’s a gentle and sympathetic way of expressing what can happen in someone’s mind to lead them to make terrible decisions. It’s a really crucial song on the album, not least because it was the one that Tom really latched onto.” (Tim, Apple Music)
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PAROLES Rice-Oxley/Chaplin/Hughes/Quin Friend, I’ve done something stupid again And now it’s little lies and alibis It starts, the money in your pocket at last And now it’s little lies and alibis It’s not that I don’t love you And now it’s little lies and alibis | A PROPOS “’Stupid Things’ is quite unusual for Keane—a storytelling song. Partly, it relates to my own experiences. I’d just gone off the rails. I loved the idea of telling it, trying to imagine this basically normal everyman sort of a character. He’s working in the city in London. I imagine him going for one harmless after-work drink. That becomes one more drink. Then, you meet someone, and things spiral out of control. Before you know, you’ve gone from being a wholesome, honest person who has total control of your life to creating this web of chaos for yourself. It’s so easy to do that. People do it all the time. We dig these holes for ourselves, from which it can be hard to recover. The chorus is like a litany of mistakes, but the verse is trying to express how easy it is to do that. Just because you start to earn some money, that doesn’t suddenly make you a different person or a better person. You’re just the same old person as vulnerable as anyone else.” (Tim, Apple Music) |
PAROLES Rice-Oxley/Chaplin/Hughes/Quin A plan is a work of art You’re digging for the answers But you’re still here Phases, the motion of our lives We salvage the parts we can Always on the outside Take what you can Phases, the motion of our lives And sometimes you feel how good it is | A PROPOS “It’s a new section of the record. All this happened and all these things go wrong. Then I feel like ‘Phases’ is an introduction. Like, ‘This is a human experience. It’s okay if life doesn’t go the way you planned it when you were 22.’ I find that really hard to accept, even now. You think you’ve made a plan for your life. The truth is it rarely works out that way. It’s fine to say, ‘Okay, that was that, one door’s closed and another one opens.’ It’s a really hopeful song, a bit like the way I feel. It’s like trying to pick myself up and hopefully have that effect on other people.” (Tim, Apple Music)
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PAROLES Rice-Oxley/Chaplin/Hughes/Quin Hey big shoes, once I was young like you Hold my hand just like you used to do On days like this, you wonder what true love is Hold my hand just like you used to do Show me that dreamer I love Hold my hand just like you used to do | A PROPOS “A love song to my daughters. Just trying to say that I’m always here. I was imagining them as teenagers and them discovering the more brutal side of life, like heartbreak and drinking too much. Maybe they’ll start to make mistakes that matter, experiencing a little bit of hardness of life. It’s just a way of saying, ‘Dad’s always here, whatever happens.’” (Tim, Apple Music) |
PAROLES Rice-Oxley/Chaplin/Hughes/Quin Hanging by a thread connecting me to you A fine thread, not tough enough to bear Well maybe it was just our time Hold me in your arms Well maybe it was just our time Hanging, left spinning in the wind Well maybe it was just our time I don’t know why I said | A PROPOS “I was just trying to describe how delicately balanced a marriage can be. I totally thought I would be with my wife forever. I was trying to say, ‘I found myself in this place where I felt like I was hanging by a thread, and things were so delicately balanced.’ It’s about how precious these things are and how easily they can slip away.” (Tim, Apple Music)
( A propos de la version demo) « Along with Strange Room, this song formed the earliest foundations of Cause and Effect.Those two songs galvanised us into coming together again, and made us realise what we wanted the album to be about – the gradual breakdown of a deep bond, the causes of it, the fallout from it. |
PAROLES Rice-Oxley/Chaplin/Hughes/Quin You can shape the dying day You can chase the night away Sorry I’m distracted by You can chase the night away ‘Til your mind stops reeling You can chase the night away Guess I’m trying to say | A PROPOS “It’s a much more positive song. It’s about the future. It’s about new love and how it’s difficult to start again from that place, especially as you get older. It’s not like being 21, where it’s one relationship to another. You’re looking for that right person and planning your future. When you’re in your forties and you’re starting again, it’s different, it’s complicated. There’s still beauty there, and there’s still possibility. I wrote those songs to someone that I’ve met and was trying to say, ‘There’s hope. Thank you for showing me the light as well as the shade.’ » (Tim, Apple Music) |
PAROLES Rice-Oxley/Chaplin/Hughes/Quin I see your face like a vision of god Give me some signal, say that you understand I need your love Love me just a little and I will give you my life I need your love I need your love I need your love | A PROPOS “That was written in a time of desperation. It’s a very Lennon-Springsteen anthemic love song. I think the aches of desperation that you feel in the lyrics, it’s almost humiliating. It’s almost like that, ‘I’ll do anything to make things right, I’ll humiliate myself to make you happy,’ which is not a healthy way to live. The album ends with that quite nuanced look at relationships. The whole album is a breakup album. We didn’t want it to have an easy resolution. I love that we’re all singing together on it by the end, much like a chant, a mantra of needing that love. It’s very meaningful to us and hopefully to people who hear it.” (Tim, Apple Music) |
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PAROLES Rice-Oxley/Chaplin/Hughes/Quin It’s been a difficult year Some days it seems okay A dozen months go by I’ve had a little bad luck A dozen months go by Is it too late to find someone to Yeah, is it too late to find someone to It’s been a difficult year | A PROPOS |
You're Not Home
PAROLES Rice-Oxley/Chaplin/Hughes/Quin The click of the front door Hear voices recede and your fingers slip from my hand And it’s cold, cold, cold, cold, cold I love that silver-grey first morning light And it’s cold, cold, cold, cold, cold I love that silver-grey first morning light I love that silver-grey first morning light No, you’re not home | A PROPOS “It’s about the feeling of being in an empty house that used to feel much more like a home, and how terrifying that can be. We wanted to really create an atmosphere with it. David Kosten, who produced the record, was referencing Björk and Peter Gabriel. It starts with atmospheric leaps that almost appear random, like a collision of stars. It gives you an interesting contrast. It just builds and builds, then you have a huge drop that’s like an emotional outpouring. By the time you get to the end of that song, you’ve been on an emotional rollercoaster—and it’s only the first track. We wanted to turn people on to the drama of the record.” (Tim, Apple Music) |