niemand de geweldige nieuwe single 'black and white town' nog gehoord?
http://nme.co.uk/news/110834.htm (en naar beneden scrollen)
En een review van het nieuwe album 'Some Cities'
While everyone awaits the new Coldplay album, the Manchester band have sneaked up on the rails with the first essential album of the year, says Luke BainbridgeSunday January 23, 2005
The Observer
Doves' tale, one of an eventful, elongated evolution from chart-topping early Nineties dance outfit to one of the country's finest guitar bands, may be well documented, but what still surprises is the groundswell of goodwill behind them. They're not the easiest band to pigeonhole, but they've slowly and surely carved their own niche in the public's affection. Their previous album, 2002's The Last Broadcast, gave them their first number one, and while some critics may be reserving their hosannahs for the reinvention of the wheel that Coldplay's forthcoming album is being billed as, in many homes across the land few albums will be more eagerly awaited in the first half of 2005 than this. Expectation has only been heightened by the towering lead single 'Black And White Town', a hard-hitting Northern Soul-tinged anthem driven by Andy Williams's cavernous, foundation rattling percussion (like Mo Tucker on base speed), coupled with bouncing, euphoric keys. It's a life-affirming call to arms, railing against the boredom of listless teenage years spent in smalltown little Britain: 'I gotta get out of this satellite town'. It's arguably their finest single yet, despite the stiff competition, and an apt introduction to their strongest album to date. Having found their sound with Lost Souls then banished the fear on The Last Broadcast, this is the sound of Doves in full flight, reaching new heights.
On 'Snowden' [sic], recorded on location in Snowdonia, the moody intro rolls along the metaphorical valley floor before climbing upwards to the first verse. 'Sky Starts Falling' is set to be a fine and further frenetic addition to their impressive live arsenal. The - ahem - slow-burning 'Walk In Fire' is a heart warming tale of friendship ('I've always known, that you felt that pain, and it had to start to show, driven you insane'). On 'One Of These Days' they glide effortlessly from swooping low verse to soaring chorus.
Jimi Goodwin's voice is stronger than ever, and guitarist Jez displays an ever increasing range, from the Edge-meets- Velvets sound of opener 'Some Cities' to the ethereal strokes of closer 'Ambition', recorded in a deserted Benedictine monastery.
An outstanding return. If anyone needs reassuring that guitar music is in safe hands for 2005, all you need is Doves.