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 simple focus of writing and recording that album; no personal fuck-ups or problems, I was in a good place.

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The album reached number 16 on the UK Albums Chart, [1] and has since been certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. 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. By summer of 2002, Doves were touring for the album in the United States, the Netherlands and Europe, Australia, and Japan. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 85, based on 20 reviews.

The discography of the English alternative rock trio Doves comprises five studio albums, sixteen singles, and seven EPs, as well as a best-of compilation album, a B-sides compilation, and a full-length DVD compilation. 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.

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Doves wrote, recorded, and mixed the album within eight months, "which for Doves was incredibly fast," concluded Jez Williams.The album's first single " There Goes the Fear" entered the UK Singles Chart at number 3, the band's highest-charting single to date, despite being released and deleted on the same day. com, Jez said that the songs came quickly and effortlessly: "I had this little house in Northenden where my makeshift studio was.

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The album's second single " Pounding" was released in July 2002, and peaked at number 21, while third and final single " Caught by the River" was released in October 2002 and reached number 29 on the charts. The Last Broadcast sold 52,000 copies in its first week, [7] and has since been certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. 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]).

Liverpool; The Dairy and 2kHz, London; Real World, Bath; under the M60 flyover, Northenden; Jez's house; Lynch Mob studio; and various country seats. A remixed version of "Words" entitled Live for City is played at the start of all Manchester City F. Produced by Doves, except "Satellites" produced by Steve Osborne for 140dB, and "Caught by the River" co-produced by Steve Osborne and Doves. The Last Broadcast was released by Capitol Records in the United States on 4 June 2002; first pressings of the album stateside included a limited edition bonus disc, featuring four songs released as B-sides on the UK singles.

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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.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.