The Last Broadcast

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The intro to "Words" has also been used as the background music for both ITV Sport's FA Cup coverage and the NFL Network's commercials during the 2006-07 football season. Kingdom of Rust did not enter the Dutch Album Top 100, but entered the Dutch Alternative Top 30 chart at number 27. We liked the fact that you could only get a hold of a certain amount of this or a certain amount of that.

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After self-releasing their first three EPs on Casino Records, the band signed to Heavenly Recordings and released their debut album Lost Souls in April 2000.

com, Jez said that the songs came quickly and effortlessly: "I had this little house in Northenden where my makeshift studio was. Produced by Doves, except "Satellites" produced by Steve Osborne for 140dB, and "Caught by the River" co-produced by Steve Osborne and Doves.

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Like "There Goes the Fear" before them, the singles for "Pounding" and "Caught by the River" were also limited in released quantities. Simultaneously, the band announced their fifth studio album, The Universal Want, which was released on 11 September 2020, [5] with third single "Cathedrals of the Mind" preceding the album's release on 27 August 2020. Their second album The Last Broadcast was even more successful upon its release in April 2002, reaching number 1 on the charts and yielding the band's highest-charting single to date, " There Goes the Fear", which peaked at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart. The band also incorporated string, brass, and woodwind arrangements into the songs, arranged by The High Llamas frontman Sean O'Hagan, as well as gospel choir vocals on "Satellites", while lead single "There Goes the Fear" features a Brazilian Carnival-inspired percussive outro.Similarly, the B-side "Hit the Ground Running" is an adaptation of " Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon. Like its predecessor Lost Souls in 2000, The Last Broadcast was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2002. A remixed version of "Words" entitled Live for City is played at the start of all Manchester City F. When asked in a 2010 interview with Under the Radar as to why the single was limited, Jez Williams stated, "It was to do something different from the norm.

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The Last Broadcast sold 52,000 copies in its first week, [7] and has since been certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. B However, in a 2022 interview on the XS Long Player Podcast with Jim Salveson, Andy Williams revealed that the song was actually recorded under the M60 Motorway flyover but the band "got the name wrong" also adding that 'M62 Song' Sounds better anyway" [3]). Worldwide tours coincided with the releases, including an appearance at the BBC Electric Proms festival accompanied by the London Bulgarian Choir in October 2009.Then, in 2019, Doves reunited for a special charity gig, whereupon rumours of the band recording new material began to circulate. 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. The release of the first single " There Goes the Fear" on 15 April brought the band their highest-charting single to date, peaking at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart.