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Doves issued a third digital-only single in advance of the album with "Saint Teresa" on 10 February 2025, shortly after the announcement of a special red-coloured 10" vinyl single release of deluxe edition bonus tracks "Cally" and "Lean into the Wind" for Record Store Day on 12 April 2025. "A Drop in the Ocean", the album's fourth single ...
Doves are an English indie rock band, formed in Wilmslow, Cheshire in 1998. The band is composed of singer and bassist Jimi Goodwin and twin brothers, guitarist Jez and drummer Andy Williams . The band released six studio albums between 2000 and 2025, three of which reached #1 on the UK album charts.
Worldwide tours coincided with the releases, including an appearance at the BBC Electric Proms festival accompanied by the London Bulgarian Choir in October 2009. [3] A best–of compilation, entitled The Places Between: The Best of Doves, was released in April 2010 [4] and peaked at number 12 on the albums chart. [1]
The Universal Want is the fifth studio album by British rock band Doves.The album was released by Heavenly Recordings and Virgin/EMI on 11 September 2020. [1] The Universal Want is the band's first album following a hiatus that began in 2010; the band members pursued solo projects in the interim.
The album was born from a tumultuous time in Doves' history, [1] and followed a four-year gap between their last album Some Cities in 2005, at the time the longest period between albums from the band. Doves would tour to promote the album throughout 2009, culminating in a recording hiatus in 2010 which would subsequently last until 2020.
Doves wrote, recorded, and mixed the album within eight months, "which for Doves was incredibly fast," concluded Jez Williams. [4] "M62 Song" is credited to the band and Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, and Peter Sinfield because, as stated in the album sleeve, the song is an adaptation of "Moonchild" by King Crimson.
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Doves also performed on several songs on Badly Drawn Boy's debut album The Hour of Bewilderbeast, as well as accompanied him on tour dates. [15] Doves' second release was the Sea EP in May 1999. [15] A little more than a week before the EP's release, the band's mentor and friend Rob Gretton died of a heart attack. [16]