kingdom of rust

Jimi & Andy In Conversation With The Quietus

Pop-culture website, The Quietus, has a great new interview with Jimi and Andy.

The Quietus

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.

Two-Track Digital Single Available At Amazon.com

Amazon MP3
U.S. fans can purchase the two-track Kingdom Of Rust digital single from Amazon.com, encoded at 256kbs MP3.

The single includes the album and acoustic versions of ‘Kingdom Of Rust’ and is priced at $1.42.

The download has been available since March 29th, so apologies for not bringing this to your attention sooner.

Click here to purchase the single.

XFM Xposure

XFM London Radio’s Xposure show last night, featured an in-depth discussion of Doves’ Kingdom Of Rust album. The band gave an incisive commentary on each individual track, to DJ John Kennedy.

To listen to the show, click here and choose the option marked:
Last 7 Days – Xposure with John Kennedy

From the drop-down menu, choose the show marked:
Xposure with John Kennedy (01/04/2009)

The XFM Radio player isn’t the most user-friendly… Aside from the fact that you are prompted to register on their site to “listen again” (BugMeNot.com is your friend), there is no fast-forward option!!!

Incidentally, Jimi and Andy’s XFM Residency show starts this coming Sunday at 09:00pm. See the official Doves blog for further information.

Jimi Interviewed For Guardian Music Weekly Podcast

This week’s Music Weekly podcast at The Guardian, features a brief interview with Jimi…

Jimi Goodwin, the main man of Doves. Ahead of their fourth album, Kingdom of Rust, he talks about the trials of recording, the importance of place and their confluence of influences. Though he does it in far more pleasant language.

To download the podcast, right-click and save this link. To subscribe to future Guardian Music Weekly podcasts, the XML feed is here.

Kingdom of Rust EP

The Kingdom of Rust EP is now available to purchase at iTunes UK.

Tracklisting:

Kingdom of Rust
Kingdom of Rust (Acoustic Version)
The Greatest Denier
Spellbound

DERMOT O’LEARY LIVE SESSION

Doves live session from Maida Vale, London has just aired on Radio 2. Recorded yesterday, whilst they were also performing for Lamacq live. They ran through three tracks:

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.

DOVES AT THE BBC

Doves now have their own section up on the Radio 2 section of the BBC website. You can read the excellent review of the album. Check out video/pictures and more related to the sessions doves are doing over the weekend for Lamacq & O’Leary.

Doves at Radio 2

LAMACQ LIVE

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!

THE SUN/FLASHLIGHT REVIEW

Doves are featured in today’s Sun newspaper. A nice article. Check it out..

We questioned if we were any good… if we could still do it

Independent music website Flashlight have reviewed the Kingdom Of Rust album. A positive honest review:

Flashlight – Kingdom Of Rust

USA TOUR/PUSH ME ON

Astralwerks has got its doves microsite live now. It has the links for the pre-sale tickets that go on sale 10am Wednesday. There are also some nice web goodies you can grab off the site. You can also join the street team if you so wish.

Astralweks doves

The top indie site Stereogum is now offering a free download of the Push Me On Playgroup megamix. The remix will be available to purchase on a rare 12″ only vinyl. Go grab the mp3!

I found a new doves fansite on my google travels. Not sure how long its been up. But well done whoever is site it is. Click the link below to visit the site.

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