Doves confirm new album The Universal Want with latest single Prisoners

Doves by Jon Shard

After the live return last year and the more recent premiere of Carousels, their first piece of new music in over a decade, Doves have confirmed the details of The Universal Want.

Out on September 11th, the album is being previewed today with Prisoners, which Andy Williams says is about, ‘continually chasing something and not being satisfied when you eventually get it’. “You’ve got ‘that thing’ and you find you’re not any happier,” he adds. “Be careful what you wish for.”

Doves worked with co-producer Dan Austin at their own Frank Bough Sound III studios to complete the long awaited follow-up to 2009’s Kingdom Of Rust. “It’s definitely got the stamp of ‘the time’ all over it,” Jez Williams believes.

“Everything on the album is an echo. It’s an echo of what we were going through at the time. Getting back together, the Royal Albert Hall and everything else.”