For the past year and a half Doves have been teasing new music/a new album but with nothing concrete emerging. However today the band made good on their promise with the release of their first new music in 11 years.
Today they’ve returned with brand new single “Carousels,” a track that feels like it’s picking right off where Doves left us a decade ago, with wide-spanning and expansive rock that is packed to the brim with emotional layers that only they could properly conjure up.
It was actually built off a sample from the late, great drummer Tony Allen and built from that into a song that is “Tracing memories of childhood innocence, wild nights on the Waltzers and the fairground’s sense of candyfloss-scented menace.”
“Carousels” had initially found life far from the North of England, with Doves’ Jez Williams heading to the vibrant Portuguese city of Porto with the idea in mind and put it into full form back at Doves’ own, famed Frank Bough Sound III studio. The track ended up becoming one of the first new ideas that the band shared between each other when the life-long friends first picked up instruments as a band again.
So many bands return after time off sounding like a shell of their former selves. But Doves are not most bands and they return just as mighty as they left us, even if the world has turned its back on us. It’s one of the finest releases of 2020.
Find “Carousels” streaming below. We need that new album about right now.
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