Doves - 'There Goes The Fear' (Heavenly)
5/5
By: Toby L
Available for twenty-four hours only on its release-date in the UK (Monday 15th April, 2002), this single from Manchester three-piece, Doves, their first for quite some time, is the best musical-moment that the trio have produced yet.
'There Goes The Fear' is a scintillating and perplexing arrangement of a song... Almost beyond 'a song' as such, with enough creative input and ideas contained herein to form an album's worth of material. Its 'classic' trademarks it bears are highly relevant, too; fusing a slightly 60's and hovering repetitive set of six-string hooks, along with a glorious myriad of vocal-textures, it closes beautifully in an extravagant flourishing of intense percussion and chirpy pipes - a final smash on a drum finalising the seven-minute epic.
It's strange that sometimes music such as this is formed amidst a climate of otherwise very different styles... But, let's thank goodness for its Planet-Earth arrival. Obviously, if Doves maintain such a quality, like it seems they're set to with upcoming LP, 'The Last Broadcast', then it's not gonna be a great shock to discover who the next great British band will be for 2002.
Artists in this article: Doves
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