0131. Doves
The Last Broadcast
Sad to say, this is a band that remind me too much of Coldplay to work properly. Sure - the intro-track's nice, but then the cloneage begins: whiney singing over a background of increasingly "intense" music (and yes, they call it "alternative").
But that's what I guess could be expected from a band that can trace it's origins back to playing house music (yes, my prejudices shines through).
But, the album's not all a waste, cause I got to say that the one exception to the formula, Friday's Dust, is a damn good song (at least compared to the company it got) - there's almost no trace of whine in the singing with music that's comparatively stripped down (hey, it's just guitar, a string section, a brass section, clarinet and a guy in an echo chamber). But to endure the other fifty or so minutes just to listen to that one track?
