It's Spring Break for me. I decided I would write about the Doves today. They are a band from the U.K. that a friend introduced me to a few years back. (Thanks Chris Neeson!) These guys make music I really love. I suppose this music could be called Brit Pop - it certainly is catchy stuff - but I also think it has a lot of elements from all over the place which makes categorizing the Doves pretty difficult. There are elements of electronica, jazz, and samba in some of the songs listed here which I believe supports my point. I am also very impressed with how well produced the Dove's albums are. When I say produced, I hope I am using the word correctly, what I mean is the way the recordings are engineered to move from speaker to speaker or the sound is engineered to go from lo-fi to very clear hi-fi to enhance a particular part of a song, for example. There are a lot of nuances in these songs that really catch my ear and I think make the songs more compelling. Given the catchy nature of these songs I am surprised that the Doves have not caught on more. They have had some songs featured on soundtracks recently ("There goes the fear" - 500 Days of summer and "Down by the River" - Scrubs Soundtrack) hopefully this helps the Doves get some more exposure.
Enjoy!
***Update v1: For some reason the music player for the Doves is skipping the first two songs (which I think are two of the best) so please make sure you hit the previous track button to hear "Black & White Town" and "Snowden".
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