Manchester indie rock band Doves have announced the release of their sixth album “Constellations For The Lonely“.
The band have also shared the album’s lead single, Renegade, alongside a video. the 10-track record will be out on Fri 14 February 2025 via EMI North. Pre-order it here.
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.
The band’s drummer, vocalist and co-songwriter, Andy Williams says:
“Looking at everyone’s lives over recent years, and considering the news at the moment, ‘Renegade’ feels a lot more loaded in retrospect. We wanted to go for a dystopian feel, thinking about Manchester itself over the next century or so. A totally imaginary thing… ‘Blade Runner’ set in our home city.”
Check out “Renegade” below followed by the album’s tracklist.
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.
Doves “Constellations For The Lonely” Tracklisting:
- Renegade
- Cold Dreaming
- In The Butterfly House
- Strange Weather
- A Drop In The Ocean
- Last Year’s Man
- Stupid Schemes
- Saint Teresa
- Orlando
- Southern Bell
Photo credit: Brian David Stevens
