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Doves – Some Cities / Special CD + DVD Edition / CD includes Black And White Town, DVD includes 'Cities Under Construction' Documentary, Black And White Town 'Directors Cut' Video / EMI Audio CD + DVD CD 2005
UPC 724386085504
REGION 0 PAL DVD
MADE IN EUROPE
Limited edition pressing of their third includes a bonus DVD (NTSC/Region 0) unavailable on US pressing. The bonus DVD features a short film (approx 11 mins) of the 'making of' the album titled "Cities Under Construction", plus a photo gallery (set to an exclusive album instrumental) and the Director's Cut of the video for "Black and White Town" by acclaimed Director Lynne Ramsay. If the first two Doves albums, Lost Souls and The Last Broadcast, were records that sounded like they were conceived in Glastonbury-like vast open plains, each number a snapshot of the wide open countryside or of the rolling sea, then their third album, Some Cities, paints altogether different pictures. At points it's crunching and urban, sounding like a midnight high-speed joy ride through the industrial beating heart of the city (most noticeably on the turbo charged first single "Black and White Town"). At others, it's like a long lost soundtrack to some early '60s kitchen sink drama ("Someday Soon", "Shadows of Salford"). Some Cities could only ever have been born in the North of England and is the sound of a full throttle Doves band. It's also the sound of the band at their most relaxed and confident, their most driven and fine-tuned. Some Cities arrives almost three years after The Last Broadcast. Conceived as a shorter, more forceful record than its two predecessors, the record was written primarily in cottages and holiday rents around the UK (Snowdonia, Darlington and Youlgreave in the Peak District) and recorded with Ben Hillier (producer of Blur's Think Tank and Elbow's Cast of Thousands) in Liverpool, Brixton and Loch Ness. EMI. 2005.
Tracklist:
| CD-1 | Some Cities
Percussion – Ben Hillier
Percussion – Ben Hillier
|
3:22 |
| CD-2 | Black And White Town
Piano – Martin Rebelski
Piano – Martin Rebelski
|
4:15 |
| CD-3 | Almost Forgot Myself
Backing Vocals – Guy Garvey
Backing Vocals – Guy Garvey
|
4:42 |
| CD-4 | Snowden
Arranged By [Strings] – Ian Burdge
Backing Vocals – Guy Garvey
Glockenspiel – Ben Hillier
Strings – Millennia Strings
Arranged By [Strings] – Ian Burdge
Backing Vocals – Guy Garvey
Glockenspiel – Ben Hillier
Strings – Millennia Strings
|
4:12 |
| CD-5 | The Storm
Arranged By [Strings] – Ian Burdge
Noises [Footsteps, Street Noise] – Andrea Wright (2)
Piano, Percussion – Ben Hillier
Strings – Millennia Strings
Written-By – Ryuichi Sakamoto
Arranged By [Strings] – Ian Burdge
Noises [Footsteps, Street Noise] – Andrea Wright (2)
Piano, Percussion – Ben Hillier
Strings – Millennia Strings
Written-By – Ryuichi Sakamoto
|
4:52 |
| CD-6 | Walk In Fire
Backing Vocals – Janet Remus
Backing Vocals – Janet Remus
|
5:34 |
| CD-7 | One Of These Days | 4:50 |
| CD-8 | Someday Soon | 4:08 |
| CD-9 | Shadows Of Salford
Accordion – Martin Rebelski
Accordion – Martin Rebelski
|
2:44 |
| CD-10 |
Sky Starts Falling | 4:11 |
| CD-11 | Ambition | 4:02 |
| DVD-1 | Cities Under Construction (Documentary) | 14:02 |
| DVD-2 | Black And White Town (Video) | 4:21 |
- Engineer – Ben Hillier, Dan Austin, Richard Morris
- Engineer [Assistant] – Andrea Wright (2)
- Mixed By – Ben Hillier (tracks: CD-2 to CD-5, CD-7 to CD-11), Doves (tracks: CD-2 to CD-5, CD-7 to CD-11), Rich Costey (tracks: CD-1, CD-6)
- Producer – Ben Hillier, Doves
- Programmed By – Ben Hillier, Richard Morris
- Written-By – Andy Williams (4), Jez Williams, Jimi Goodwin
