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Doves - Last Broadcast

Last Broadcast

by Doves

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25/04/2002
Music Genre
Alternative
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"Words, they mean nothing, so you can't hurt me", croons Jez Williams on 'Words', precisely three minutes into Doves' second album. Hell, there's nothing like getting your retaliation in early. But anyone bearing any residual ill-will toward Doves and their extraordinary second album should leave right now. After all, it's not as though - Jimi's beard aside - they've shown signs of the flu-rock epidemic that's swept, erm, 'Guitar Britain' since, oh, 'OK Computer' (symptoms in victims: pallid complexion; week-in-bed clothes; tunes that help you grieve more easily). Doves may be depressed, sure, but unlike, say, Elbow, they're never depressing. When Jimi Goodwin sings, "You turn around and life's passed you by" on epic seven-minute Beach Boys-do-'I Am The Resurrection' single ' There Goes The Fear' it neither makes you want to dig out that rusty razor blade or wallow in the potential consequences of David Beckham's fractured metatarsal bone. Instead, much like masters of the art U2, it just makes you want to holler along louder. As their accountants might tell you, it's quite a knack.

That's not to say the much-trumpeted positivity of 'The Last Broadcast' has brought out Doves' latent frivolous gene. As befits any self-respecting Manchester band, there's always a thunderstorm of gloomy atmospherics lurking at any given chorus. A homage to 'Moonchild' by dreamy prog-rockers King Crimson even gets poetically re-titled 'M62 Song' and is explained away in the blurb as having been "recorded under a flyover" just in case we might have thought that Doves were getting a little, y'know, soft on us. Clearly, those food-fight videos remain a while off.

Musically, the thaw comes in waves of guitars which sound like keyboards and keyboards which sound like electronic ghosts gliding through deserted stately homes. Whatever they are, they give you the shivers. 'Satellites' has a gospel grandeur which nods to both Blur's 'Tender' and the liquid grace of Spiritualized's 'Cop Shoot Cop', while northern souls past and present flit by to pay their respects. The Beatles' 'It's All Too Much' gets not so much of a face-lift as a face-launch in the epic 'Words'; Badly Drawn Boy is shamelessly plundered in the title track and a Noel Gallagher-like knack for melody surfaces in the storming Oasis-esque 'NY'. Plus there's shades of everyone from (hate to say it, but it's true godammit) The Smiths to Echo And The Bunnymen to New Order in the overall swamp of not-quite-rock melancholia.

Imagine 'Lost Souls' injected with Prozac and a huge dose of weird guitar noises that give you goosebumps from head to toe. That's 'The Last Broadcast'. It's one of those rare albums that makes sense first thing in the morning and when your head's exploding. Where, exactly, did all the duff tracks go? Who cares? Words they mean nothing. Doves have made the most uplifting miserable album you'll hear all year. Wallow in it like a hot bath.

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Product Details

Artist
Doves
Original year of release
2002
Label / Studio
CAPITOL
Year of release
2002
Media Content Format
Album
Number of Discs
1
Media Format
Audio CD
Recording Environment
Studio
Music Genre
Alternative
Title
Last Broadcast
Cast & Crew
Doves (Music Performer)
Doves (Producer)

Press Reviews

9 out of 10 - "...The second album from Doves, energizes the droning psychedelic landscapes found on their debut, LOST SOULS. Exhibiting far more stylistic cohesion, [it] boasts shimmering pop that meshes well with its harmony-drenched synth-and-guitar sprawl....This is a dazzling and haunting disc; one hopes this album is a misnomer. Alternative Press (8/02, p.75)

...Not only does the ambient rock channel luminaries like the Stone Roses and the Charlatans, it also innovates...on its own terms....the group's epic, fuzzy rock smacks of having been created by a former dance act... CMJ (5/13/02, p.5)

...Damn good... Magnet (6-7/02, p.86)

...Visceral, pulsing, uplifting, widescreen but with none of the bluster that would tip its forbears into self-parody. Songs burst with ideas... Mojo (5/02, p.108)

9 out of 10 - "...The most uplifting miserable album you'll hear... NME (4/27/02, p.28)

Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 2002 Q (12/02, p.65)

3 out of 5 stars - "...Echoing, acoustic folk-pop....melodic yet substantial, uplifting, and acceptable to football fan and student alike... Q (May 2002, p.109)

Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2002 Rolling Stone (12/26/02, p.104)

3 stars out of 5 - "...They make tremendously consoling music, in an autumnal sort of way. LAST BROADCAST is nearly as comforting as the return of cool weather after the summer... Rolling Stone (6/20/02, p.83)

Ranked #27 in Uncut's "100 Best Albums of the Year" - "...Sonically confident and considered... Uncut (1/03, p.95)

3 1/2 out of 5 - "...Fueled by rigorous guitars, rugged bass lines, precise percussion, and soulful loops....THE LAST BROADCAST shows the Doves in full flight... Vibe (8/02, p.165)

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

  1. Intro
  2. Words
  3. There Goes the Fear
  4. M62 Song
  5. Where We're Calling From
  6. N.Y
  7. Satellites
  8. Friday's Dust
  9. Pounding
  10. Last Broadcast
  11. The Sulphur Man
  12. Caught By the River

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