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"Sovereign Light Café" is a song by English alternative rock band Keane released as the third single from their fourth studio album, Strangeland.

"Sovereign Light Café"
Single by Keane
from the album Strangeland
B-side	"Difficult Child"
Released	23 July 2012
Genre	Alternative rock, pop rock
Length	3:38
Label	Island
Songwriter(s)	Tim Rice-Oxley, Tom Chaplin, Richard Hughes, Jesse Quin
Producer(s)	Dan Grech-Marguerat
Keane singles chronology
"Disconnected" (2012) "Sovereign Light Café" (2012) "Higher Than the Sun" (2013)

The band played the song for first time during the Perfect Symmetry World Tour on 17 September 2009 in Thunder Bay Ontario.

The band announced on their official website: "With Strangeland sitting atop the UK album chart for a second week, we're pleased to report that the next single to be taken from the album will be Sovereign Light Café, which is released on 16th July".[1]

The song is written with inspiration drawn from the town of Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex, where the café is located in real life, and also the town of Battle, where many of the roads mentioned are close to where the members of Keane grew up.[2]

Music video

The music video was premiered on 30 May 2012. It was filmed in Bexhill-on-Sea and directed by Lindy Heymann. The video shows band members strolling the town as they are surrounded by various dancers, acrobats, bicyclists and Heathfield Silver Band.[3] The band members and all the performers meet outside the Sovereign Light Café Coffee Shop at the end of the video and it ends with a group photo.

Track listing

• Digital download

1. "Sovereign Light Café" – 3:38
2. "Difficult Child" – 3:44

• Digital download — remix

1. "Sovereign Light Café" (Afrojack Remix) – 6:16

Charts

References

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