Doves Some Cities 2 X LP VINYL 2019 NEW & SEALED White Vinyl (Number 2957)
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Doves Some Cities 2 X LP VINYL Heavenly 2019 NEW. Condition is New. Dispatched with Royal Mail 2nd Class.
One of a series of numbered editions.
Pressed on white vinyl.
Doves – Some Cities. (reissue). Released via Virgin UMC. Available on Double White Vinyl LP.
High on the emotional responses to their first gigs for a decade, a re-energised Doves follow their live return by announcing numbered limited edition, two-disc, coloured vinyl packages of their first three albums.
The Mercury Award-nominated brace of debut album, Lost Souls and follow up, The Last Broadcast join third studio album, the chart-scaling Some Cities in the triumvirate of vital reissues, all with original artwork and sleeve notes.
The privileged status of a ‘great albums band’ falls to only the few and, while Jimi Goodwin, Andy and Jez Williams have attained full membership of that distinguished club, their unforgettable singles were potent bait for each long player. Channelling observational lyrics and swirling instrumentation into a new and unlikely euphoria, the first three Doves albums delivered, amongst others, Catch The Sun, There Goes The Fear, Pounding and Black and White Town in five, breathless years of prolific writing and recording. Yet, for every pulsating single there was a misted, melancholic soundscape or gently warped, acoustic opus to light the way through Doves’ singular sonic landscape.
It took a gap of almost three years for third album, Some Cities to emerge in February 2005. Reissued on double white vinyl, the album was co-produced by the band and Ben Hillier in typically nomadic fashion, completing sessions in Manchester, Liverpool, London and a former Benedictine Monastery in the Scottish Highlands. As a statement of intent, lead single, Black and White Town stopped traffic; a rug-cutting stomp that recalled the talc-dusted, amphetamine rush of the northern soul, only to be followed by the incisive Snowden, with Jez William’s ethereal guitar accents and ‘that’ melodramatic wall of strings as its returning motif.
Third single, Sky Starts Falling sits in league as a neighbouring, chart-friendly rabble rouser, yet the orchestral, ambient beauty of The Storm, the tender anthem-in-waiting, Walk In Fire and the mournful, pub piano ballad of Shadow Of Salford, sung by Andy Williams, confirmed Doves’ greatest asset to be their versatility. The band’s musicianship, breadth of musical passions and collective and individual strengths – Jimi’s direct and credible delivery, Jez’ strokes of perfectly judged guitar and Andy’s wide-ranging percussive gift – had produced arguably their most rewarding album to date and the second Doves album to go straight to number one in the UK Albums Chart.
“It’s going to be one of 2005’s most loved albums. Doves seem hell-bent on lifting their music to a higher celestial plane.” – Q on Some Cities
“You have to own this album.” – The Sunday Times Culture on Some CitiesTracklisting: Doves – Some Cities
Side A A1. Some Cities A2. Black And White Town – Listen / Watch A3. Almost Forgot Myself
Side B B1. Snowden B2. The Storm B3. Walk In Fire
Side C C1. One Of These Days C2. Someday Soon C3. Shadows Of Salford
Side D D1. Sky Starts Falling D2. Ambition
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