Doves by Jon Shard
Doves are set to be a part of the Forest Live concert series next year, playing a show at Delamere Forest near Northwich, Cheshire on June 20th.
The band will be hoping 2021 brings more opportunities such as this to get out on the road after the September release of their first album in over a decade; “With a muffled guitar loop very reminiscent of Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Broken Eyes easily takes a place at the top table of Doves tracks, containing an earworm of a chorus with grandiose yet subtle strings,” our Universal Want review reads.
“Despite clocking in at only four minutes, it has the feel of an epic. Meanwhile the toe-tapping For Tomorrow re-introduces the familiar Hacienda keys (Doves were once dance act Sub Sub, as if you didn’t know) alongside a McCartney bassline to create a new zenith in Northern wistfulness. The keys return on the title-track which, despite commencing as a piano ballad, progresses with a house groove, stuttering beat and some Chic-y (sorry) guitars for good measure whilst Goodwin laments about contemporary consumerism.”