In less than a month, on September 9th, Keane is scheduled to release their comeback album Cause and Effect.
The band, who shot to stardom with their debut album Hopes and Fears in 2004, has not released a new album since 2012’s Strangeland and has been on hiatus since 2013.
“We make such great music together, I would’ve been really sad if we never followed that through again,” Tim Rice-Oxley explained to Billboard why the band is now coming back together.
Lead Singer Tom Chaplin added: “I was off doing solo things, and I felt like I hadn’t seen Tim in ages. He’s an important person in my life, so I felt like I needed to see how he was.”
This fateful reunion set in motion a chain of events that will end next month with the band’s sixth studio album.
Referring to the new album’s first single, the melancholic “The Way I Feel”, drummer Richard Hughes had this to say: “There’s a sort of vulnerability to admitting you don’t have any of the answers, isn’t there? It’s not a very modern thing. Everyone wants to feel like they’ve got a handle on whatever they’ve got going on — when most of the time, we don’t.”
