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Cause & Effect

Official website: Causeandeffect.com

Cause & Effect were an electronic/keyboard band of the early-to-mid nineties. From Sacramento, theny were formed in 1990 between vocalist Rob Rowe and keyboardist Sean Rowley. Other members have included Keith Milo on synthesizer and Richard Shepherd on drums.

After releasing their debut self-titled album on Exile Records, the album was picked up by BMG label Zoo Entertainment. The group began to see national success in 1992 with the singles "You Think You Know Her" and "What Do You See." Rowley died suddenly in 1992 at the age of 23 while the group was on tour.



Here is a tracklist for the 1990 album Cause & Effect on Exile Records:
  1. The Echoing Green
  2. Another Minute
  3. Something New
  4. What Do You See
  5. Farewell To Arms
  6. You Think You Know Her
  7. New World
  8. Nothing Comes To Mind
  9. The Beginning of the End
  10. Unholy Day



The tracklist for the 1992 release Another Minute on Zoo Entertainment Records/BMG is exactly the same as the 1990 self-titled release on Exile Records.

In Sacramento the group headlined KWOD's first concert festival called KWOD-a-pa-looza in October 1992. A month later Rowley died in Minneapolis of cardiac arrest following an asthma attack. The group remained with BMG through 1994, when they had another big hit in the alternative radio world, "It's Over Now." Rob Rowe moved to Seattle and continued to record with Cause & Effect through the 2000s.

Here is a tracklist for the 1994 album Trip on BMG Records:
  1. It's Over Now
  2. Inside Out
  3. Alone
  4. In Shakespeare's Garden
  5. You Are The One
  6. Soul Search
  7. Stone Girl
  8. She Said
  9. Sinking
  10. Crash



Here is a tracklist for the 1997 album Innermost Station on Liquifaction Records:
  1. Eclipse
  2. Generation
  3. World Is Ours
  4. Mars
  5. She's So Gone
  6. Radiolaria
  7. Real?
  8. Leaded
  9. Overdose



Here is a tracklist for the 2010 album Artificial Construct (Part One) on Liquifaction Records:
  1. Happy?
  2. View of the Sea
  3. This Is Who I am
  4. Sleep



Here is a tracklist for the 2011 album Artificial Construct (Part Two) on Liquifaction Records:
  1. Happiness Is Alien
  2. City Lights
  3. Shine
  4. Future

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