The Last Broadcast (album)

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"For me they were good days. The simple focus of writing and recording that album; no personal fuck-ups or problems, I was in a good place. We were just in it riding the wave – enjoying the act of making music – so simple!"

—Jez Williams on the album's streamlined recording process [4]

The Last Broadcast was released on 29 April 2002, and topped the UK Albums Chart. [5] 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. [5] The single, pressed as a limited edition eCD and a 10" vinyl record, was released and deleted on the same day. When asked in a 2010 interview with Under the Radar as to why the single was limited, Jez Williams stated, "It was to do something different from the norm. Just wanted to try something different really. I can't remember exactly whose idea it was. It might have been the manager's, but we were kind of into it. A kind of statement, in a way. We liked the fact that you could only get a hold of a certain amount of this or a certain amount of that. Especially in this day and age of readily available bits of music, it's kind of nice: a physical copy that's precious to you because you managed to get to the shop that day and actually own that." [6] The Last Broadcast sold 52,000 copies in its first week, [7] and has since been certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. [8] 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. [5] Like "There Goes the Fear" before them, the singles for "Pounding" and "Caught by the River" were also limited in released quantities. 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.

The band began touring in promotion for the album at the end of February 2002. By summer of 2002, Doves were touring for the album in the United States, the Netherlands and Europe, Australia, and Japan. [9] Their July performance at The Eden Sessions in Cornwall was filmed and featured on the band's full-length compilation DVD Where We're Calling From , released in September 2003. In addition to the live concert, the DVD prominently featured a documentary on the band, including previously unreleased footage of the recording of The Last Broadcast as well as previous album Lost Souls, along with all of the band's music videos to date and a myriad of special features. [10]

A remixed version of "Words" entitled Live for City is played at the start of all Manchester City F.C. games at the City of Manchester Stadium, due to the band's support of the team. 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. "There Goes the Fear" was featured in the film and on the original motion picture soundtrack to (500) Days of Summer in 2009, while "Pounding" was used in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics With Glowing Hearts/Des Plus Brilliants Exploits advertisement campaign and in pre-event intros.

Reception

The Last Broadcast
Doves Last Broadcast.jpg
Studio album by
Doves
Released29 April 2002 (2002-04-29)
RecordedJanuary 2001–January 2002
Studio
Genre Indie rock, post-Britpop, dream pop, neo-psychedelia
Length53:55
Label Heavenly
Producer Doves; Steve Osborne, Max Heyes
Doves chronology
Lost Sides
(2001)		The Last Broadcast
(2002)		 Lost Sides (reissue)
(2003)
Doves studio album chronology
Lost Souls
(2000)		The Last Broadcast
(2002)		 Some Cities
(2005)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 85/100 [11]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Entertainment Weekly A− [13]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [15]
NME 9/10 [16]
Pitchfork 8.0/10 [17]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [18]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [19]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [20]
The Village Voice B− [21]

The Last Broadcast was met with critical praise. 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. [11] NME awarded the album 9 out of 10 stars, calling the album "the most uplifting miserable album you'll hear all year." [16] The Austin Chronicle called the album "[a] stunner... an infectious, melancholy, ultimately euphoric barrage of sound wrapped in a sheeting of guitars and subtle effects that coalesce around frontman Jimi Goodwin's plaintive voice and brothers Jez and Andy Williams' lovely, pounding, relentless vibe that echoes with hints of Northern soul and terrifically big beats." [22] Blender called the album "utterly entrancing," [23] while AllMusic praised it as a "musical daybreak." [12]

Like its predecessor Lost Souls in 2000, The Last Broadcast was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2002. The album lost to Ms. Dynamite's debut album A Little Deeper . Kludge included it on their list of best albums of 2002. [24]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jez Williams, Jimi Goodwin, and Andy Williams, except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Intro" 1:18
2."Words" 5:42
3."There Goes the Fear" 6:54
4."M62 Song"Williams, Goodwin, Williams, Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield 3:48
5."Where We're Calling From" 1:24
6."N.Y." 5:46
7."Satellites" 6:50
8."Friday's Dust" 3:35
9."Pounding" 4:45
10."Last Broadcast" 3:22
11."The Sulphur Man" 4:37
12."Caught by the River" 5:55
Limited edition US bonus disc
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hit the Ground Running" Zevon, Marinell, Wachtel 2:54
2."Far from Grace" 4:24
3."Northenden" 4:03
4."Willow's Song" (full length version)Traditional4:20
Japan bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
13."Far from Grace"4:24
14."Northenden"4:03

Release history

CountryDateLabelFormatCatalogue #
United Kingdom29 April 2002 Heavenly Recordings CDHVNLP35CD
Double LP (heavyweight vinyl; gatefold sleeve)HVNLP35
Japan1 May 2002 Toshiba-EMI CD (2 bonus tracks)TOCP-65975
22 January 2003CD (tour edition with purple-tinted artwork; 2 bonus tracks + enhanced video)TOCP-66129
United States4 June 2002 Capitol Records CD (initial pressings include bonus disc)724381223222
Europe31 May 2019Universal Strategic Marketing/Virgin EMIDouble LP (limited/numbered edition on orange-coloured vinyl) [25] 7748263
United Kingdom27 November 2020Double LP (black vinyl)857375
United States15 January 2021

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