Artwork by Rick Myers
Released: July 22nd 2002
Produced by: Doves
Label: Heavenly
Track listings:
CD HVN 116CD
1. Pounding
2. Far From Grace
3. Northenden
DVD HVN 116DVD
1. Pounding (Video)
2. Satellites (Soulsavers Remix)
3. M62 Song (Four Tet Remix)
Japanese EP TOCP-61068
1. Pounding
2. The Cedar Room (Live At Triple J Radio)
3. Here It Comes (Live At Triple J Radio)
4. Valley
5. Your Shadow Lay Across My Life
6. Willow Song
10″ Vinyl HVN 116-10
Side A: Pounding, Satellites (Soulsavers Remix)
Side B: M62 Song (Four Tet Remix)
Video
(Directed by Julian House & Julian Gibbs Intro)
Chart History
Highest UK single chart position: 21
Pounding spent three weeks in the charts:
Week 2: 39
Week 3: 59
NME Review
Our single of the week pounds and pounds and pounds. Gloriously, endlessly, transcendently…DANG! DANG! DANG! DANG! DANG! DANG! What does ‘Pounding’ do? It pounds and pounds and pounds. Gloriously, endlessly, transcendently…building, almost imperceptibly, to a) the best guitar solo since Aztec Camera’s Roddy Frame took a back seat and b) the best exit-left jangly guitar coda since Johnny Marr left . And at the centre? Jimi Goodwin, no-one’s idea of Pavarotti, but a bloke whose vocals throb with an Everyman hurt and humanity. Is it happy? Is it sad? Better than that ‘Pounding’ is ALIVE! Frenzied orgasms ‘n’ irretrievable breakdowns, blazing suns ‘n’ blazing rows, scarf-waving stadium joy and box-bedroom frustration…it’s all here. As for the Soulsaver’s mix of ‘Satellites’ and Four Tet’s take on ‘M62′, well, they’re your post-coital cigarettes. Or, rather, cigars. Essential.