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Mon Sep 04 2023

5

I my review of their second album, I found them to be too derivative of other people's works, particularly Colplay. And I can sorta hear those vocals here too, but considering the timeline, I think now it more comes from Oasis. I'm hearing a lot of Beatlesesque melodies (especially "Lost Souls") mixed with a fuzzy shoegazy atmospheric grand sound, certainly a chiller, more focused form of Oasis. They weren't the only one doing this of course; you also had Verve and Spiritualized earlier, but this is just darker and pop-accessible. Highly accessible with a full, developed sound and somber mood. As a whole, it's a coherent experience, with songs flowing well and maintaining the same vibe. I found plenty of songs I liked, and I think I prefer this to The Last Broadcast. I'm not crazy about it yet, I did really enjoy all the songs, and I could put it on repeat. No bad songs. Giving it the full score, and maybe I should revisit The Last Broadcast.

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Wed Aug 09 2023

4

I was familiar with this band in name only so I wasn't sure what to expect. Glancing over their influences and the album cover, I slightly assumed this would be a selection of alternative pop rock arena anthems. This isn't quite that. Instead, I discovered something that seems to defy easy definition. Yes, Doves had a big sound, but they created it behind a veil of effects and experimentation, influenced by shoegaze, and, to my ears anyway, neo prog. A small chunk of this actually reminds me of post Fish Marillion when they riff on the Beatles or even if the album 'Brave' was geared more as hangout music. Another surprise was the amount of Mark Hollis and Talk Talk touches with the use of keys, harmonica, and some guitar tone. This group seemed more content creating texture than hooks which might leave some feeling put off, but for me it was welcome despite not always being an easy listen. Multiple plays seem to reward the listener.

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Thu Aug 24 2023

3

There's some interesting sounds and effects used at the beginning of this album. It was a pretty unique and relaxing album until Catch The Sun which felt extremely out of place. It feels like an emo Foo Fighters song that was created to be a radio hit. Reprise was a lovely little number. This album had an interesting back and forth of being really relaxing and calm, to have unsettling ends of songs. This album feels like it has some legs to get to a 4, but I don't see myself revisiting this one anytime soon.

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Mon Oct 23 2023

3

I definitely listened to this at the wrong time of day. This is an album that’s supposed to be listened to at 3am on a Saturday morning when walking through the streets of a wet Northern city in a post-party haze. I listened to it over my lunch break on a Monday afternoon, and I liked it just fine, but I do think it’d be enhanced by listening in the correct setting

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Wed Aug 16 2023

5

Beautiful album, so much atmosphere. I have loved this for many years.

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Wed Aug 16 2023

5

Aangename verrassing

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Wed Sep 13 2023

5

5+ stars. Always loved this album

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Mon Sep 25 2023

5

Pretty good! Firesuite is an amazing intro. Every song here is good, and had heart into it. Memorable tracks, cool lyrics, cool atmosphere. Very cool!

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Mon Nov 06 2023

5

Man, I really loved that. All the things I love about Air's "Moon Safari" but with more structure to it. It's just such a good vibe from needle drop to record end. I'm so surprised at what a good time that was. Full marks.

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Thu Nov 16 2023

5

probably a better album than their more commercially successful ones.

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Mon Nov 27 2023

5

10/10 I’ve heard this album before it’s one of my favorite 2000s alternative albums

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Mon Aug 07 2023

4

Mjög þægileg tónlist. Þarf að skoða betur.

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Mon Aug 07 2023

4

Just misses out on a 5 star rating cos it just kinds of makes you a little fed up with the relentless sameness after a while.

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Fri Aug 11 2023

4

I owned this album in my youth. I liked it at the time, mainly for the singles and stand out songs (Here It Comes, The Man Who Sold Everything, The Cedar Room and, particularly, Catch The Sun). From revisiting it with a more mature ear, the singles still stack up and my appreciation of the album overall has grown. It's layered, textured, atmospheric, varied and well sequenced. Really good. Incidentally (if you discount Party in the Abby Grounds featuring Katrina and the Waves without Katrina and 2 minutes of Mike D'Abo) Doves were the first live band I ever saw, opening for Oasis at Wembley in 2000. Rating: 4/5 Playlist track: Catch The Sun Date listened: 10/08/23

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Thu Aug 24 2023

4

Man I enjoyed tf out of this. Pretty dream-like sounding songs with some melancholy added in for good measure. I was driving so no real review by song but can say this would be a good album to lay in bed with all the lights off and take drugs to. High 4 but it went on a bit longer than I usually like an album to be so will knock it down.

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Fri Sep 01 2023

4

Really dug this

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Sat Sep 02 2023

4

Other than one or two songs, a stellar album.

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Wed Sep 06 2023

4

Before listening to this I was really only familiar with their follow up, The Last Broadcast which I really liked and listened to a lot back in the day. I think I like this more and I guess like a lot of music it's a little derivative of what came before, I can hear some Oasis, The Bends/OK Computer era Radiohead, some Spiritualized and a little bit of the chilly psychedelia of late 70s Floyd. I dig it.

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Thu Sep 07 2023

4

7/10. Enjoyable. On the low end of a 7, slow but had some energy behind it.

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Fri Sep 08 2023

4

Really enjoyed this one.

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Mon Sep 11 2023

4

"Lost Souls" is the debut studio album by British indie rock band Doves. Indie rock, dream pop, neo-pyschdelia, shoegazing, space rock. Yeah, all that eventually. Doves is brothers Jez (guitars) and Andy Williams (drums) and lead vocalist Jimi Goodwin. The album was recorded over a period of several years which included a fire destroying everything and following the dissolution of their original house music band Sub Sub. Commercially the album hit #16 in the UK and critically received mixed but mostly positive reviews. It was on the short list for the UK Mercury Prize. An instrumental "Firesuite" starts things off with dreamy synths and a droning guitar. This leads into "Here It Comes" which continues the dreamy atmosphere and sets the tone for the next several songs. Drowned vocals, singing about drugs. A piano and guitar outro. An acoustic guitar and a Peter Hook-ish bass breaks up the dreaminess somewhat in "Lost Souls." Goodwin's clearest vocals. The second half of the album brings a string of their singles. "Catch the Sun" brings the rock-pop, their most traditional straight-forward rock song and it's a good one. Acoustic and electric guitars. Catchy. A fading guitar and they rock out at the end. "The Man Who Told Eveything" continues the traditional pop sounds. Syths, acoustic guitar and an orchestral outro. A droning, shoegazy, feedback guitar highlights "The Cedar Room." It's slower and works even with its seven-minute length. A break-up song. This album is dreamy, melancholy and at times jazzy and electronic creating an atmosphere. Honestly, it took me a few listens to really get into it and I did ,appreciating the laid-backness and showgaze and reminding me of Slowdive and Spacemen 3. If you're into that, you'll definitely like this album. The three released singles are very good rock songs which most people will like.

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Mon Sep 11 2023

4

Never heard of this album before - Its not bad. Maybe I was busy with other stuff in 2000? Anyway, its good and reminiscent of other stuff in that period - I hear more Filter/Coldplay sort of vibes than Oasis in here. 4/5

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Thu Sep 14 2023

4

I unexpectedly really liked this. I'll put this on the list.

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Sun Sep 17 2023

4

Really cool, moody rock.

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Mon Sep 18 2023

4

Nice. Dreamy. More unique than The Last Broadcast. The End.

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Tue Sep 19 2023

4

I liked this album enough to go back and relisten to the last broadcast, which was one of my earliest albums on this list, and between these two albums doves should've been the main British rock export of the 2000s instead of Coldplay (and I like Coldplay). Lost souls has such a good ethereal yet overbearing atmosphere running throughout the entire thing and it's everything you could want from an early 00s indie rock album. I couldn't pick out as many individual tracks that I really liked except for the man who told everything but there was never a point in the album where I wasn't enjoying myself.

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Wed Sep 27 2023

4

v chill

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Fri Sep 29 2023

4

I reviewed their other album The Last Broadcast while recuperating after doing a hike in the Fiordlands of New Zealand. I was chilling to that album in a cheap and cramped hostel in Queenstown, but really loved the vibe. Their sound is representative of the post-Oasis Britpop sound. I probably don't seek out their music intentionally but really don't mind it.

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Fri Oct 06 2023

4

Unsure where it singularly fits as a genre but broadly speaking it fits in the British Indie Rock vibe. It feels like the perfect after-hours soundtrack inan underground bar where you could go and just vibe out to the music, yet equally soundtrack an evening session at home with a few friends and a few bottles deep in the wine. With Doves' electronica roots they really know how to hook you in, and keep you begging for more. Best: The Cedar Room Worst: Melody Calls

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Wed Oct 11 2023

4

chill

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Fri Oct 13 2023

4

A sprawling, dark album highlighted by a unique approach from their old electronic music days. I hate that so many bands, especially British Indie bands are compared to Oasis, but this band builds and improved upon the blueprint those assholes laid out. Always cool to hear a new and important Indie album. A notable step towards the many 2005 and after British Indie albums

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Mon Oct 16 2023

4

I'm a sucker for mellotron. So when I heard that in the opening song, I was sucked in. Those first four songs just kept going from strength to strength. I really enjoyed what I heard. Wikipedia filed this under shoegaze, which I was not a big fan of, but this I enjoyed. Definitely would like to hear more of this.

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Thu Oct 19 2023

4

Really has s nice indie rock sound. Sophisticated and consistent throughout the album. Interesting that this band played house music previous to this as Sub Sub and this was essentially a rebrand. I'm sure it allowed them to bring something unique to their rock sound and help them stand out.

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Sat Oct 21 2023

4

Not the most groundbreaking sound or anything, actually very derivative - basically every song made me go "Hey, this remind me of [insert 90s band here]", but they always pulled it off quite well. I sure as hell can't complain that there's more faux OK Computer-era Radiohead to listen to. A bit too long and the first half is substantially better than the second half (except for "The Cedar Room" which is incredible). 4/5, will definitely return to this in the future. Preferably while it's night and/or raining.

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Sun Oct 22 2023

4

Not my kind of music, but I can understand why people like it. So how should I rate it?

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Thu Oct 26 2023

4

Never heard of this band before but this was solid overall. “The Man Who Sold Everything” had a great melody and the guitar parts in “The Cedar Room” were really nice. Sounds like it might have influenced Bon Iver and Hozier. Would I listen to this album again? Probably not but I’m not mad I heard it.

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Thu Oct 26 2023

4

Great energy and song writing. They used more complicated chord progressions than your standard rock band but nothing too distracting. My impression of Doves is a more interesting Oasis

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Fri Oct 27 2023

4

Zeer plezierig! Ga ik vaker draaien.

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Sat Oct 28 2023

4

I'll have to listen to this album again at a later date. After a listen and a half, it's really good. It has a Radiohead Kid A vibe to me which I enjoy. A lot of space, long notes and acoustic guitar for the rhythm. Good stuff! 4 for now.

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Wed Nov 01 2023

4

Never heard of this band before, but really enjoyed this album. Will likely listen again.

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Fri Nov 10 2023

4

I was pleasantly surprised by this one.

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Sun Nov 12 2023

4

Haven’t heard of them - a rock album from 2000. Quite like Rock so let’s see… I’m liking it so far - not too heavy and good melodies/vocals etc. 4/5, enjoyed this one!

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Thu Nov 16 2023

4

The musical equivalent of Scott Kelly morphing into a human fly.

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Thu Nov 16 2023

4

A thoroughly strong record end to end - it’s one of those that is better then the sum of its parts. Loved it.

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Mon Nov 20 2023

4

I really liked this. Not every song caught me, but for the most part I really liked the sound and vibe of this.

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Thu Nov 23 2023

4

If Coldplay and Radiohead had a kid- worth a relisten

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Wed Nov 29 2023

4

This is interesting big atmospheric sounds. Reminds me of Radiohead I'm a way. I'm intrigued by this band who I've never heard of before and will check out some of their other stuff.

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Sat Aug 05 2023

3

I've liked other albums from Doves, but this one was boring. Does the producer just walk away from this with a sense of accomplishment or just a "well, that's over with"?

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Sat Aug 05 2023

3

A solid album but the only outstanding track is The Man Who Told Everything.

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Mon Aug 07 2023

3

I enjoyed many of the moody, melancholy components at play here but found they never truly coalesced into a resonant conclusion.

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Mon Aug 07 2023

3

This is someone’s favorite album of all time, and I know with a repeat listen, I would appreciate it more. Just the production alone is pretty astounding for 2000. That said, as a first time listener, I found it hard to really get hooked in as every song kind of just went a direction I didn’t care for. I wanted a hit, but maybe they don’t do hits. I will say the back half of the record seemed to flow more freely and sounded a bit more cohesive than the first half. Overall just more enjoyable.

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Tue Aug 08 2023

3

Every song very different. Wide range of sounds. Pretty mellow.

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Wed Aug 09 2023

3

Hadn’t heard of this band. Thought it had some good songs, a bit slow in parts, probably be nice to listen to on a road trip. 3.5

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Fri Aug 11 2023

3

It's unclear how much Coldplay copied Doves or Doves copied Coldplay.

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Fri Aug 11 2023

3

Was not expecting a song with no vocals. Good, no bangers, yada yada, 3.5 stars.

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Sat Aug 12 2023

3

With a name like "doves" it's gonna be indie nonsense, probably UK *again* and probably unheard of outside the UK. Ok that wasn't too bad really. Not great, it just kinda existed - and did so for a bit too long, in a very "this is from England" way - but I couldn't say I wanted to smash anything out of frustration. 3/5.

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Wed Aug 16 2023

3

This was fine. Nice vibe and made for good background music. None of the songs stood out for me, but they flowed together nicely.

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Sun Aug 20 2023

3

I need a little more time in the wild with it, but it feels like a grower. Lush in a good way.

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Wed Aug 23 2023

3

It's fine. Nothing to write home about. I wouldn't turn it off if it came on the radio.

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Thu Aug 24 2023

3

I think I liked the first half more it was a little more trippy while the second half become a lot more rock. I enjoyed the whole album but the front half sounded more unique. This is a high 3 for me

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Thu Aug 24 2023

3

I'm legitimately confused as to how the first song has nearly 7 million listens. I mean it is a fine song, but nothing particularly special. Sprawling atmospheric downtempo rock that has a cavernous feel. I dig it just fine, but there isn't a whole lot to sink in to. I listened to this in the background and enjoyed it being there. Listening through a second time a bit more focused and I will say I feel similar. I enjoy Break Me Gently a lot and the transition into Sea Song. Two spread out, no nonsense indie songs erring on the sad side of the spectrum. Sea Song has an interesting progression through the main melody with a lot of movement. The Man Who Told Everything sounds a lot like a RHCP song, but I can't quite place it. In general I found this to be a fairly enjoyable listen front to back, but found it to be more mood / background music than something I could focus on for an extended amount of time. For background music this is a 4.5, for everything else, probably a 3.5, but I'll round down.

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Fri Aug 25 2023

3

Good

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Sat Aug 26 2023

3

Good background music, but that's about it.

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Fri Sep 01 2023

3

Indie rock. Ni fu ni fa.

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Thu Sep 07 2023

3

It was definitely more atmospheric than the previous Doves album we had, but still pretty boring. It doesn't help that I listened to this in a kind of fugue state while finishing up some urgent work. 6/10

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Fri Sep 08 2023

3

Rara avis en el panorama del brit pop de començaments de mil.leni, Doves van tenir el seu moment just als albors del segle, amb aquest primer disc i la seva continuació dos anys després. Era un temps on l'eufòria dels 90's de bandes com Oasis, Blur, Pulp o Suede començava a desdibuixar-se, totes elles començant els 00's amb discos irregulars i fluixos. Travis era en aquells anys la banda a destronar, mentre que Coldplay i Muse donaven els seus primers pasos. En aquest contexte, Doves no tenia un encaix gaire clar, i de fet actualment gairebé ningú es recorda d'ells. Però van tenir el seu moment i cal reconèixer que temes com 'Catch the Sun', 'Rise' o 'Here It Comes' encara es disfruten força

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Sun Sep 10 2023

3

pretty good. That first song, Firesuite, was so familiar but none of the rest. The first track Spotify played after this was from Beck. Definitely an apt comparison, though Beck is a lot better.

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Thu Sep 14 2023

3

Not bad. Nice background music.

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Fri Sep 15 2023

3

Listened twice, couple of really nice songs on there will give their other stuff a go, 3.5

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Sun Sep 17 2023

3

3.75

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Sun Sep 17 2023

3

Prvi put kad sam slusao album nije mi se svideo, mislio sam da su previse spore pesme i prazne Ali na drugi listen sam bio vise into it Muzika je za odredjeni mood ali u tom moodu je odlicna Top pesme - Lost Souls, Rise

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Mon Sep 18 2023

3

Doves have always been a 'nearly' band for me. I like some of their anthemic later singles but find their music can be a bit dour, a bit plodding, and the start of this album did nothing to dissuade me of that. The second half was a lot better though. Some very pretty stuff on there, which won me over somewhat.

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Mon Sep 18 2023

3

Pretty good background music. Bit repetitive.

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Tue Sep 19 2023

3

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Here it comes, Rise

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Wed Sep 20 2023

3

Technically the first band I saw live (supporting Travis) but definitely not one I expected to see on this list. A perfectly cromulent band but are they that significant?

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Wed Sep 20 2023

3

Sea Song was the stand out, the others range from solid to inoffensive.

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Sun Sep 24 2023

3

I really wanted to like this because I really liked The Last Broadcast. This wasn't that. Shame. Best track: Catch the Sun

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Mon Sep 25 2023

3

Rock indie

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Tue Sep 26 2023

3

This was not something I found particularly engaging. Musically it's wonderfully played. For me though it sort of drones on and on and ends up going nowhere as a piece of music. Overall this is not a record I’ll be spinning again.

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Fri Sep 29 2023

3

It's a complex high quality album but not especially memorable

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Sun Oct 01 2023

3

Having never heard them before, I had a good idea what this would sound like when I saw they were a British Indie Band from 2000. I wasn’t far off but I definitely did underestimate them, this is a strong debut. At just shy of an hour this is an ambitious album, atmospheric and droning at times. It did tend to sag at times for me but I really did enjoy the peaks. Favourite tracks, Firesuite, Sea Song, Catch the Sun. 3.5 stars

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Mon Oct 16 2023

3

Cool sound. The opening track Firesuite felt like a modern/2000's version of shoegaze - but the good kind (like the best of Catherine Wheel) and not the bad kind (like the worst of My Bloody Valentine). But it felt uneven from there, or at least I wasn't as captivated by most of the remaining songs as I was that first one. Catch the Sun reminded me of the Foo Fighters, and that's a good thing. Break Me Gently and Melody Calls both had cool beats reminiscent of other music I can't quite put my finger on (Coldplay maybe - Sea Song definitely had that vibe) but the vocals were so-so (skip the muffled effect on the former and don't let the drummer sing on the latter). This is an album that feels like maybe it grown on me and become a 4, but it didn't quite captivate me enough to test out that possibility.

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Tue Oct 17 2023

3

Seemed okah

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Wed Oct 18 2023

3

Decent Manc album, not sure it's essential. 'Catch The Sun' is still awesome but 'Firesuite' is sounding a bit dated now. At this rate I'm going to be reviewing I Am Kloot records.

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Thu Oct 19 2023

3

I find the sound of Doves to be like someone is used to listening to very stereotypical indie rock but thinks Doves are doing something very interesting because they haven't been exposed to other bands. Much too pedestrian for my tastes.

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Thu Oct 19 2023

3

Too depressing, good sounds

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Sat Oct 21 2023

3

Never quite decided what it wants to be. Still, an interesting artifact from the turn of the millennium.

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Wed Oct 25 2023

3

Les Doves furent une des belles surprises du générateur à une époque qui parait desormais bien lointaine. 2 ans de décadence plus tard, on retrouve un album moyen, avec quelques fulgurances qui nous rapellent que nous aussi, un jour, nous avons pris du plaisir au sein de ce projet atroce imposé par Robert.

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Wed Oct 25 2023

3

Très heureux de constater que le chanteur des Doves a rendu la voix de Chris Martin à son propriétaire, qui se faisait un sang d'encre.

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Thu Oct 26 2023

3

Not bad. Sounds like a less good version of Cold Play. I don't dislike it, but no reason to be on this list.

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Thu Oct 26 2023

3

Not what I expected. A lot of instrumental, almost psychedelic stuff at the beginning, then some oasis copying, and then I thought the back third was not bad. The Man Who Told Everything and The Cedar Room were my faves. Still, would not be on here if they weren’t british.

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Thu Oct 26 2023

3

It provided a baseline enjoyment all the way through. Probably with more listens the songs would start to differentiate themselves but on one listen it seemed really monotonous. 6/10

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Fri Oct 27 2023

3

Ik dacht dat ik dit leuk vond, maar na een paar keer draaien kwam ik tot de conclusie dat het verschrikkelijk braaf en on-origineel is.

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Fri Oct 27 2023

3

Dit heeft vleugjes van early-Radiohead, maar ook van andere meer Britpopperige bandjes uit de jaren 90.

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Fri Oct 27 2023

3

Dit vond ik best wel tof eigenlijk.

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Fri Oct 27 2023

3

Interesting listen. Probably would love it on a second listen

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Sat Oct 28 2023

3

Pretty good chill

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Sun Oct 29 2023

3

Not what I expected and an unusually broad variety in the sound, I found it hard to pinpoint actually. Not sure it quite added up to a cohesive artifact for me, but it's another one I feel deserves further attention.

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Sun Oct 29 2023

3

It was alright, I liked a handful of tracks.

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Tue Oct 31 2023

3

I'd say this was good but not great.

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