Doves The Last Broadcast

Doves - The Last Broadcast
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 352 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Heavenly # HVNLP35CD | Country/Year: UK 2002
Genre: Electronic, Rock | Style: Brit Pop, Downtempo, Indie Rock

…They've stripped down to the basics, letting the optimism of The Last Broadcast take center stage. It's a brilliant moment.

About a decade ago, the word "angular" was rarely heard outside of a geometry class, and this was what Mercury Prize nominations sounded like. Doves did enough anthemic rafter-reaching to honor predecessors like Oasis and the Verve. They were also studio-centric and tech-savvy enough to satisfy an OK Computer jones, while having enough British classicism for people not ready to follow Radiohead down the rabbit hole. And there were many of them, to the point where "new Radiohead" (ironically sounding like the old Radiohead) became one of the early new century's most briskly populated UK indie subgenres.

In a tumultuous 2020, the re-emergence of Doves with new music has provided a shaft of light in an otherwise brooding sky, finally landing their fifth album, 'The Universal Want', after an eleven-year artistic break. Buoyed by refreshed chemistry, restless studio creativity and public reaction to their return, the album's release is preceded by the single 'Prisoners'. Refusing once more to fall into predictable, guitar-bass-drums, 'plug in and play' dynamics, 'The Universal Want''s overwhelming sense of intrigue owes everything to Doves' three decades experience at the wheel of their band (a lifespan going back to their time as dance band, Sub Sub), and an autobiographical trip through the sounds of their own lives.

Doves - Some Cities
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 290 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Heavenly # HVNLP 50CD | Country/Year: UK 2005
Genre: Electronic, Rock | Style: Brit Pop, Downtempo, Indie Rock

…Escaping the dreariness of Manchester is what fueled Doves to start a band in the first place. Some Cities isn't a Mancunian downer. It's very real and Doves' best yet.

This show, broadcast live from The Isstadion, Stockholm on the 22nd of August 1986, thus provides a fascinating record of a critical juncture in the Prince story. Prince performs the bulk of Parade alongside a selection of greatest hits from across his career including Controversy, Raspberry Beret, Head, 1999, When Doves Cry & Purple Rain. On Parade In 86 is an essential recording for anyone with an interest in Prince a stunning collection from his first tour of Europe, and his last with The Revolution, it captures a critical moment in the endlessly compelling Prince story.