I just found this on www.aaamusic.co.uk: an article about Keep you close, including something that looks like tthe cover artwork.

A video has been uploaded to Youtube today. It presented by the uploader as the official video for Keep You Close. I checked with the dEUS-management  and this video is NOT the official video for the single.



(Source: dEUS-fr.net)

Spanish webzine Crazy Minds reveals the tracklist of Keep You Close

1. Keep You Close
2. The Final Blast
3. Dark Sets In
4. Twice
5. Ghosts
6. Constant Now
7. The End Of Romance
8. Second Nature
9. Easy

(thx to elviejito on ISR)

A couple of UK webzines are reporting on the release of Keep You Close. However, they're mentioning October 3rd as the release date. Most probably, the album will be released in the UK a couple of weeks later then in mainland Europe.

Shout4Music has some interesting lines about the background of the album as well. Sit back and enjoy!

As the title suggests, ‘Keep You Close’ sees lead singer and lyricist Tom Barman react to ‘Vantage Point’ with a determination to return the band to a more personal lyrical style and a warmer musical approach. Whilst still immensely proud of ‘Vantage Point’, Tom felt that its follow up should move away from that album’s ‘very loud, in your face’ sound. Consequently, much of the focus of ‘Keep You Close’ has been to develop a sound that embraces a more organic and spacious dynamic. To aid this process, and in stark contrast to the studio bound writing approach of ‘Vantage Point’, the songs that make up ‘Keep You Close’ were road tested live at festivals throughout the writing and recording period and developed through live rehearsals within the studio to, in Tom’s words, ensure that they were ‘more mature when it came to recording them’.

Keep You Close, the title track of the new dEUS album, is track of the day on Magicrpm. It will be online for 24 hours. Click here to listen. It's the first high-quality version of the song, since the radiorip which popped up a couple of weeks ago.

In a Spanish interview, Klaas says they had nearly 30 songs ready for Keep You Close. Only 9 of them will make it to the album. A couple of other songs will be released separately.

In an interview with French webzine Musiqueinfo.com Tom confirms that Keep You Close will be the single in France, while Constant Now will be the single in the rest of the world, except for Germany. It's not clear if Germany will also get Keep You Close.


Tom was surprised that the French affiliation of PIAS picked Keep You Close, a 6-minute song he didn't intend to be a single. Tom went back in the studio to record a radio-edit of the song.

Catherina listened a couple of times to Keep You Close and did an attempt to write down the lyrics. I think she did a great job. If you have corrections, leave them in the comments.


You  were young
You had time
In your hands and I
Was a moment …
… to die so low
All the time I had to keep you close
Not finding me now
How we must have hurt
To see all of your love and care
Only work a little while and then I go
All the time I had to keep you close
What you feel is what you get
You know there is no answer fit
We broke the code so long ago
I`m going to keep you ever close
Just like on the day we met
You pulling on me like a cigarette
So like the seaholes to the shore
I`m going to keep you ever close

Now the years turn away to make you forget
Make me stare at the same place …
… at path we are on
 is the path we chose
I still remember how to keep you close
Linger on, linger on in this … things
…
Dreams still come true
It`s the way it goes
And in the meantime I will hold you close
And in my heart and in my head
You are the only dream I dreamed
The fear will keep me on my toes
I`m going to keep you ever close
Just like on the day we met
You pulling on me like a cigarette
So like the seaholes to the shore
I`m going to keep you ever close
So is this what they mean about moving on
Is this really the end
You won`t stick around on one of that days
You are the one that throws
I`m the one that is kept you close
… of constant change
Transformission  … don’t stays the same
Cold is the breeze but forever blows
One of the hands that would have had kept you close
… head …
So when I see should I just pretend
The flower is cut but it still grows 
I`m going to keep you ever close
Just like on the day we met
I`m pulling on you like a cigarette
So like the seaholes to the shore
I`m going to keep you ever close

French radiohost Bernard Lenoir broadcasted a new dEUS-song in his show last thursday. Apparently France will get Keep You Close as the first single from the album, and not Constant Now.

A radio rip of the song is available on the blog of Michael. Enjoy the song and leave your opinion in the comments.

Last night at the Botanique cards were distributed with the link www.keepyouclose.com. This website includes a video with some studio-impressions. Enjoy it!

The new album will be released on September 17th. Tom announced the date during an appearance in Dutch tv-show De Wereld Draait Door. He also brought an acoustic version of Somebody To Love Me by Mark Ronson and Boy George.

In this interview with Greg Dulli there's a small thing about his work on the new dEUS-album. Dulli says he had to play in Antwerp and had a drink with his friend Aldo Struyf from Creature With The Atom Brain, when tom asked him to come to the Vantage Point-studio.

Tom asked him to sing on two songs. Dulli hasn't heard the final versions yet, but says the two songs were great.

The release of Keep You Close is postponed from April to September. The album is currently being mixed and PIAS will not be able to complete everything in time for a worldwide release in April. It's not clear yet if this will affect the tour-plans. As soon as I have news on that, I'll keep you updated.

(Source: De Standaard)

There's a great article about Tom in De Standaard today. Tom is talking about his father and the fact his father died when he was only 17. He says he has been living with deadlines since he was young.

His father was 63 when Tom was born and Tom was always thinking when I'm then my father will be 73, etcetera. He's also always planning things like 'I want to make my first movie before my 30th anniversary', etcetera. He wrote a song about this continously counting for Keep You Close: the song is called Numbers.


As you probably know already the song Right As Rain is about the death of Tom's father. He sings  His only vice was that he died while I did a little dance. And that's how it really happenend.

For the non-dutch speaking people: here's a translation by Google Translate (not 100% accurate, but good enough to understand)

According to this interview CJ Bolland is also working on Keep You Close. Not really a surprise, since dEUS and CJ are using the same studio and Tom and CJ are working on a new Magnus-album as well

Studio Brussel had a phonecall with Tom Barman yesterday. Tom told that Greg Dulli will be singing on two songs of Keep You Close. Karin Dreijer Anderson will be on the next Magnus-album.

At the moment 6 of the 10 à 12 songs are mixed. Tom describes the album as passionate and danceable. 'If Vantage Point was a vodka red bull, then Keep You Close is a mojito'.

The cover of the album will be a photo that perfectly fits with the title Keep You Close.

You can listen to the extract here.

 A small round-up on what we know about the next dEUS-album:

• The album will be titled Keep You Close
• The release is scheduled in April 2011
• It is produced by David Bottrill and his engineer Alan Nobel 
• Peter Vermeersch is involved for some arrangements. 
• 5 songs that will (probably) make it to the record: Dark Sets In, I Gave Love, Paper Bones, Second Nature, Next Generation and Keep You Close
• The album will be released on PIAS Records outside Belgium
• Tom wanted to record one song with Karin Dreijer Anderson (The Knife), but it is not clear if they succeeded
• Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs, The Gutter Twins, The Twilight Singers) will feature on one songs of Keep You Close

Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs, The Gutter Twins, The Twilight Singers) will feature on one songs of Keep You Close.

Radio 1 had an interesting talk with Tom on January 1st with some exciting news.The new album will probably be titled Keep You Close. Keep You Close is one of the tracks on the album. The album will be released in april.

Click here to listen.

(thx toUoke Knäcke)