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The fact that Doves' B-side compilation album is this good just shows how brilliant they were in this era (and still are now, but especially early on). Darker is unbelievably good; the musicianship of the trio is showcased, with Jez Williams leaving a lot of space but when he does come in it's simply beautiful, and Jimi Goodwin's distorted bass is pretty unusual for the band and probably led to this being left off Lost Souls, but it creates a brooding, and well, dark atmospehre, ... read more
Being a B-side album, it obviously isn’t as good as one of their proper releases from this period, but for a B-side album, it’s pretty darn good.
How Darker and Far From Grace, especially, didn’t make the cut for a main album, is beyond me tbh.
The middle section of the album is pretty stodgy and uninteresting at times. Down to Sea is an interesting comparison to Sea Song but severely pales in comparison; and Crunch is a slight reworking from Sub Sub’s Delta Tapes, ... read more
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Track List
- Break Me Gently (Incidental)
- Darker
- Your Shadow Lay Across My Life
- Meet Me at the Pier
- Down to Sea
- Crunch
- Zither
- Valley
- Northenden
- Hit the Ground Running
- Willow's Song
- Far From Grace
