Doves – Constellations For The Lonely (Indies Exclusive Orange Vinyl LP)
The Lathums – Matter Does Not Define (Red Vinyl LP)
Doves – Constellations For The Lonely
DOVES return with their first new music in over four years and announce a new album for release in early 2025, reclaiming territory all their own with the stormy euphoria of Renegade. Jimi Goodwin, Andy and Jez Williams’ winding path to a sixth album reaches that milestone next year, as the 10-Track Constellations For The Lonely is confirmed for release on Fri 28th February 2025.
Signing off their last chapter with the release of their third UK chart-peaking album, 2020’s boundary-pushing, The Universal Want, the release of Renegade concludes a patchwork of writing and recording sessions that began in the same year. Reading from the same page on their new single’s sense of dystopian drama, all three Doves own sense of change, uncertainty and determination pervades the intricate, Goodwin-fronted collage of cinematic sound.
Settling on the collective desire for a new album as soon as they closed the door on The Universal Want’s No.1 success, Renegade was the first to be written for Constellations Of The Lonely and the last to be written in their famed creative rural retreat, Frank Bough Sound III. Physically unanchored, waving off a totem of their shared past and facing personal mountains to climb, a new, intense, filmic, classic Doves album was carefully nurtured.
The Lathums – Matter Does Not Define
The Lathums sees the opening credits roll on the four-piece’s third, thrilling season ‘Matter Does Not Define’.
Matter Does Not Define was written by the band, comprised of Moore, Scott Concepcion (guitars, piano and vocals) Ryan Durrans (drums) and Matty Murphy (bass and vocals), in their native Wigan before recording at Kempston Street Studios, Liverpool in the company of long-term creative guide, John Kettle and producer, Chris Taylor. Proving prolific with a 12-song track listing, Matter Does Not Define not only follows the band’s chart-topping second album, but their classic indie debut, 2021’s How Beautiful Life Can Be.
