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.
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.
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.
Tracklisting:
Kingdom of Rust
Kingdom of Rust (Acoustic Version)
The Greatest Denier
Spellbound
The Fear
Winter Hill
Almost Forgot Myself
Sounded great. Check out out the Dermot O’Leary BBC page for video of the band playing Winter Hill.
Don’t forget later today doves will be performing a live session from Maida Vale in London on the Dermot O’Leary show BBC Radio 2 at 2PM.
Here is a review of the Kingdom Of Rust single as featured in the California Chronicle…
DOVES Kingdom Of Rust ***
With a futuristic glow and vintage rhythm, this sounds like far- flung folk music from a planet spinning off its axis. Four Doves- free years have whetted the appetite for the Manc trio’s return, and the title track from their imminent album is suitably grand, lustrous and melancholic. Not exactly a departure, but still a cut above mere mortals.
Doves played a session on BBC6’s Steve Lamacq show. Tracks played were Jetstream & Kingdom Of Rust. Doves will return to play more tracks on Steve Lamacq’s Monday show.
Watch video of doves performing Jetstream. (UK only)
If you fancy seeing doves live in session. Try entering the competition at absolute radio. The session takes place on Monday April 6. Try your luck!
Then at 4pm doves will be appearing on Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6 show. Talking about the new album and they will also play a live session.
Expect blog updates throughout the day.
Check out doves.net for the second part of the interview with Jez & Andy regarding the tour setlist. Andy talks about what tracks from the new album are to be added to the set, plus also the omission of the Cedar Room. A great read.
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