New movie ‘500 Days Of Summer’ features the classic Doves track, ‘There Goes The Fear’, amongst other tracks by the likes of Belle & Sebastian, The Smiths and Feist.
For further information about the soundtrack and movie, visit the official site, here.
Here’s several more reviews of the album, which you may have missed over the last few days…
Kansas City.com, Album Review:
Doves | ‘Kingdom of Rust’: Rust is the first release in four years from the British trio of brothers Andy and Jez Williams and Jimi Goodwin. The trio continued its work with producer Dan Austin. Sounds like: Coldplay, with more unexpected turns and bigger risks.
San Francisco Chronicle (via SFGate.com), Album Review:
The punk-funk oddity “Compulsion,” a lovingly crafted early New Order tribute, is a delight, though, even if it feels like iTunes has unintentionally slipped into shuffle mode.
To read the full review, click here.
St. Petersburg Times (via Tampa Bay.com), Album Review:
…the buzzing, strobing Jetstream, a dreamlike synth-pounder about “carbon seas, cast adrift on a trouble dream.” Yeah, I have NO idea. But it’s a sublime head-spinner for both humans and replicants, and it sucks you in like a vacuum, refusing to let go.
To read the full review, click here.
The Times (via TimesOnline.com), Album Review:
Doves: Kingdom of Rust. If there’s any such thing as an Elbow bounce, Guy Garvey’s fellow Mancunians have timed their fourth album smartly. Refraining from fixing what wasn’t broken, the best moments of their return evoke the magic hour industrial sunsets of their hometown, while detours into Morricone-inspired territory and the four-to-the-floor fireworks of House of Mirrors supply peaks to please those familiar with its predecessors.
Doves will appear on the second show of the new season of the BBC’s ‘Later… With Jools Holland’ show, to be broadcast at 22:00pm BST, April 14th on BBC Two.
Visit the IMDb UK TV & Radio guide, here, for further information.
BBC 6Music’s 6Mix radio show at 09:00pm BST tonight, will apparently feature new Doves music:
The Queens are joined by Brighton drum ‘n’ bass DJs The Qemists for a live mix, plus there are new remixes from Doves, Phoenix and Dizzee Rascal.
U.K. listeners can listen live via the BBC iPlayer by clicking here. Non-U.K. listeners may be able to listen to BBC 6Music live via Real Player by clicking here.
The NME’s album review, which appeared in this week’s print edition, has today been posted online at their website. They give the album 8/10, stating that, “Only the overcooked, Blondie-referencing funk of ‘Compulsion’ really disappoints”…
‘The Outsiders’ is a trashy, loveable stomp featuring an ace distorted bassline and swathes of wah-wah, while ‘Winter Hill’ is the sort of anthemic rock song that U2 spend years and millions trying to write. And there’s as much chance of Bono singing about “grassy tracks” as there is of Doves singing about “sexy boots”.
To read the full review, click here.
BBC 6Music Radio’s Steve Lamacq show, broadcast last Friday, will no longer be available to “listen again” via the BBC’s iPlayer, after today.
Click here to download a zip file containing archived MP3s.
Please note that the MP3 files are of low-quality due to their being transcoded from their original lossy source.
eFestivals has today posted further information regarding Doves’ appearances at this year’s Bestival and Glastonbury festivals.
eFestivals believes that Doves, White Lies, and Echo and the Bunnymen will be the headliners for the John Peel Tent [at Glastonbury].
For more details and ticket booking, visit here for Bestival or here for Glastonbury.
Music critic, Andy Gill, has given Doves’ Kingdom Of Rust album a five star rating in his review within today’s edition of The Independent newspaper.
…it’s all carefully worked out, plotted and planned, but without once adopting the condescending assumptions common to the stadium acts whose position Doves will surely challenge. Album of the year? Quite possibly.
To read the full review, click here.
U.K. newspaper, The Guardian, tomorrow publishes its review of the Doves’ Kingdom Of Rust album, but the review is already available online today…
It’s a curious state of affairs – No 1 artists who still carry an underdog aura – but it means that Kingdom of Rust sounds not like a band comfortably consolidating their previous success, but something more exciting: a band unexpectedly, subtly but unequivocally shifting up a gear.
You could argue that Kingdom of Rust is not vastly different from previous Doves albums. Folky guitar figures ground their airier musical conceits; the thud and rush of the dancefloor never seems far away; the more euphoric the music gets; the more miserable everyone in the songs becomes. “Home feels like a place I’ve never been,” protests Goodwin as a preposterously uplifting psychedelic soul stomp called House of Mirrors achieves vertical takeoff.
Click here to read the full review.
Pop-culture website, The Quietus, has a great new interview with Jimi and Andy.
Andy: “‘Jetstream’ started life as a more rocky song and it was later on that we added those 16s on the hi-hats and it showed us a different pattern.”
Jimi: “Then we added a phase to it. Then we added the chugga chugga chugga bassline which was really staccato.”
Andy: “We’re massive fans of Kraftwerk but we’ve never really touched that sort of thing in Doves. We were like ‘Ah!’ because there were some really big possibilities to introduce a Kraftwerk vibe. A Teutonic vibe if you like. We’d never managed to do that before so we were pretty chuffed you know.”
To read the full interview, visit this link.
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