Doves, at long last, have returned with a new album, Kingdom of Rust (April 3). It was 2005 when Some Cities came out, back when W. commenced his second term and before Facebook was open to the general public. A long time ago. I like to think the band has been holed up somewhere fine-tuning their grand, cinematic and somewhat fornlorn sound…and I may be right judging from the first single and title track of the album, because it’s an exciting return to form.

It’s a galloping tune of Manchester meets the old west, and the clip visually captures the regret at the edges of the song with a loner in his pea coat driving across the dreary, dreamy English landscape. He’s following a roadmap and using a payphone to get to somewhere. Hmm… maybe it’s 1995 in the video. Take a watch to see where it’s all going.

Doves – official site
Doves – Wikipedia