Archive for February, 2010

The Places Between: The Best of Doves

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Released on 5th April 2010 on Heavenly Recordings
So here we are, twelve years since Doves formed in Manchester and released the Cedar Room EP on the Casino Records imprint (funded by the one and only Rob Gretton) and ten years have elapsed since Doves epochal debut, “Lost Souls” was released on the legendary Heavenly Recordings. In that time we have been privy to a catalogue of genre-warping singles and a quartet of albums that have forced writers to go back to the thesaurus in search of new superlatives. These are “The Places Between”, A multi-format best of that has cherry picked the best from number one albums: ‘The Last Broadcast’ and ‘Some Cities’, last years critically acclaimed masterpiece, ‘Kingdom Of Rust’ and their generation defining debut ‘Lost Souls’. Indeed, from number 3 hit ‘There Goes The Fear’ to the Motown thump of ‘Black and White Town’ and the anthemic morning after glow of ‘The Cedar Room’. ‘The Places Between’ has been painstakingly sequenced by Jimi, Andy and Jez themselves in the way they want you to experience their last decades work, in short this is the definitive Doves Best Of.  Furthermore, in addition to a host of B sides, rarities, and unreleased tracks that make up the second disc there is a smattering of brand-new recordings, ‘Blue Water’, Drifter (Featuring Cherry Ghost’s Simon Aldred) and the brilliant new single ‘Andalucia’.The album comes in single disc and multi disc versions. The tracklistings are as follows:

DISC ONE – The Best Of
1.                  There Goes The Fear
2.                 Black and White Town
3.                 Snowden
4.                 Here It Comes
5.                 Words
6.                 Kingdom Of Rust
7.                 Sea Song
8.                 Pounding
9.                 10:03
10.               Catch The Sun
11.               Jetstream
12.               The Man Who Told Everything (Summer Version)
13.               Andalucia
14.               Caught By The River
15.               The Cedar Room
DISC TWO – Rarities, B sides and alternate versions
1.                 Blue Water
2.                 Eleven Miles Out
3.                 Rise
4.                 Darker
5.                 Push Me On
6.                 Willow’s Song (Bury Version)
7.                 Valley
8.                 Northenden
9.                 M62 Song
10.               Drifter
11.               Friday’s Dust (Capitol Tower Session)
12.               Almost Forgot Myself (Demo)
13.               Your Shadow Lay Across My Life
14.               The Last Son
15.               The Sulphur Man
16.               At The Tower (Instrumental Edit)
17.               Reprise
18.               Ambition
19.               Firesuite (Noise Version)
DISC THREE (DVD) features the videos for:
The Cedar Room
Sea Song
Here It Comes
Catch The Sun
Man Who Told Everything
There Goes The Fear
Pounding
Caught By The River
Black and White Town (directors Cut)
Snowden (Live Edit)
Sky Starts falling
Kingdom Of Rust
Winter Hill

New Birds Flew Backwards Remix

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

The good folks at Caught By The River in association with Heavenly Recordings are streaming a new remix of Birds Flew Backwards. The remix was done by Chris Watson. Head over to caughtbytheriver.net to hear the new remix.

Also announced today at Caught By The River, is the second Birdsongs compilation. This time the compilation has been put together by our very own Jimi Goodwin! To get the download, you must sign up to the site with your email address. The download will be sent out to members on Wednesday. So if you are not signed up, do so now! Artwork for the compilation has been done by Matt Sewell, which features a Robin as requested by Jimi.

RockNess

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Doves have been confirmed to play the Scottish festival RockNess in June. Tickets are on sale now, visit the RockNess website.

Brit Award Nomination / Free Download

Monday, February 8th, 2010

As you may have seen recently the band were nominated for a Brit Award in the category for best British group. Up against the likes of Friendly Fires, Muse Kasabian & JLS. The awards ceremony takes place next Tuesday Febuary 16th live on ITV at 8pm. You can visit the Brit Awards doves mini site at www.brits.co.uk/artist/doves

If you fancy getting your hands on an exclusive never before released acoustic version of Jetstream, then head over to our label mates website heavenlyrecordings.com to get the download. You need to sign up, the download is in the members area. Enjoy!