Doves - Jetstream
Four years on from their last release and Doves prove wrong the doom-mongers who speculated about the band’s demise. The trio spent 18 months working on the follow-up to Some Cities, resulting in the supreme forthcoming album Kingdom of Dust.
Doves have always had an ability work with both shadows and bright colours with a fairly limited set-up of guitar, drums and bass. It is often mesmerising to hear how much they can wring from such basics. And perhaps this could their hour to follow Elbow into wider recognition?
Jetstream is their attempt at an imaginary exit music. As they say: "Being fans of the Vangelis film score, 'Blade Runner', we always wanted to write an imaginary song for the closing credits on Ridley Scott's classic ... "
As it gathers pace it has traces of Kraftwerk's Trans-Europe Express and Chemical Brothers' Starguitar before bursting into a minimal Peter Hook riff just before three minutes and instantly swapping saddles to pick up the beat of Tour De France. Absorbing stuff.
Elsewhere on the album , the band show further fascination with the landscape of the north west of England, previously evidenced M62 Song, Shadows Of Salford and Northenden. This time around they name a track Winter Hill, presumably after the noted Lancashire landmark (and source of Manchester and beyond’s TV signals)
You can download the track - the first track on the album (to be released on April 6) - for a fortnight from the band's website.
[Download Jetstream by Doves here]
11:32 AM | 28/01/2009
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About bloody time! Sounds very good indeed...
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