Keane's fourth album was recorded and mixed at the beginning of 2012, with a tour commencing in March, and the lead single 'Silenced By the Night', being released in the UK on 15 April 2012, followed by 'Disconnected' six months later. The reception for the new album was not as universally positive as for the first three, with some critics saying that it was a step back to their comfort zone, and that the band lacked 'blood, guts and muscle'. In November 2013 they released a 'best of' compilation, which included two new tracks which were released as singles, with 'Higher Than the Sun' appearing in September 2013 and 'Won't Be Broken' in January 2014. On 20 October 2013 several publications, including The Sun and Digital Spy, claimed that Keane intended to split following the release of 'The Best Of Keane', but this was denied by Chaplin the next day, explaining that the band was not splitting up, but the members would like to "take a bit of time out from being Keane" after being busy for the past few years. This 'time out' lasted for six years, during which time Chaplin recorded a solo album titled 'The Wave' in 2016, and a Christmas-themed second album 'Twelve Tales Of Christmas' the next year, while Rice-Oxley and Quin continued with their side project Mt. Desolation, releasing 'When The Night Calls' in 2018. Toward the end of 2018, Keane posted a series of cryptic images onto their various social media accounts, hinting that the quartet were in the studio working on material, while on 6 February 2019 they posted several announcements on their Instagram and Facebook sites of various festivals in which the band would perform in the summer. In June 2019 the band released a new single from the forthcoming 'Cause And Effect' album, titled 'The Way I Feel', with the album finally appearing in September, including two bonus studio tracks on the European edition. The final post of this short series collects singles and b-sides from their last two albums, alongside some previously unreleased and bonus tracks, and their contribution to the soundtrack of 'A Monster Calls'. It nicely rounds off this four-volume collection of rarities from a band who dared to be different, and managed to make a 25 year career out of it, releasing almost as much music hidden away on singles and charity albums as they did on their five official records.
Track listing
01 Dinner At 8 (Rufus Wainwright cover from 'Connect Sets' EP 2010)
02 The Happy Soldier (previously unreleased 2010)
03 Myth (b-side of 'Silenced By The Night' 2012)
04 Difficult Child (b-side of 'Sovereign Light Cafe' digital download 2012)
05 Russian Farmer's Song (previously unreleased 2013)
06 Higher Than The Sun (single 2013)
07 Won't Be Broken (single 2014)
08 Tear Up This Town (single, from the soundtrack of the film 'A Monster Calls' 2016)
09 Glass Bottles (demo 2019)
10 New Golden Age (bonus track 2019)
11 Difficult Year (bonus track 2019)
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