Doves
Meet: We chat with Jez Williams from Doves about Northern Soul, getting the band back together and the new album, plus we review ‘The Universal Want’
The new album from Doves, ‘The Universal Want’ is a blistering rebirth from the Mancunian band. It’s much more than a return to form – their previous albums were uniformly brilliant – but there is a sense of identifiable development and growth in the intervening eleven years since ‘Kingdom of Rust’ was released. Songs such …
NEWS: Doves tease track from ‘The Universal Want’ – as sheet music!
YOU have to admit, it’s pretty much a stroke of genius. Just weeks before the release of Doves’ fifth album, The Universal Want, the Manchester trio has shared the album’s closing track, “Forest House”, but have left it to fans to work out how it sounds – by leaking the sheet music and lyrics. You wanna hear it, they’re saying: …
NEWS: Doves announce UK dates for 2021, reveal Comet is Coming remix
MUCH-loved Mancunian trio Doves have announced a UK tour for 2021. Jimi and the boys will include a homecoming at Manchester’s O2 Apollo, Brixton Academy and Glasgow Barrowlands visits among the 13 dates, set for next March and April. Tickets will go on sale at 10am this Friday, July 31st. . The band has also unveiled …
Track: Doves – Prisoners plus album news
Last month Backseat Mafia welcomed back the ever brilliant Doves upon the release of their first material in eleven years – the single ‘Carousels’. And to add fuel to the fire, Doves are back with another fantastic new single, ‘Prisoners’, as well as exciting news of a new album, entitled ‘The Universal Want’, due out …
See: Doves release first new music in eleven years – Carousels
After an eleven year gap since releasing new music, Doves are back with a new single Carousels, looking back over childhood innocence “It’s a reminiscence of the times that we’d go to places like North Wales on holiday as kids,” says Andy Williams. “Places where you had your first experience of sound systems and music being played …
News: Doves to reissue limited edition coloured vinyl editions of their first three albums
Following on from the overwhelming reaction to Doves first live shows in a decade, the band have announced the release of numbered limited edition, two-disc, coloured vinyl packages of their first three albums, out on Friday 31st May via USM / Virgin EMI. The first two of those albums, Lost Souls and it’s follow up …