
It has been four long years since Doves released the organically experimental Brit-pop sound of their last album, Some Cities . The question "What exactly have they been up to?" was emphatically answered in front of a sold-out crowd at San Francisco's venerable Fillmore Auditorium on May 18th. Maintaining the confident and consistent hollow-body sound, the new album allows them to stretch out in ways that old fans will still find comfortable. Bringing with them a bigger, more brash sound, Doves Jimi Goodwin , guitarist [...]