The Last Broadcast

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Doves wrote, recorded, and mixed the album within eight months, "which for Doves was incredibly fast," concluded Jez Williams.

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com, Jez said that the songs came quickly and effortlessly: "I had this little house in Northenden where my makeshift studio was. Their anticipated fourth album Kingdom of Rust was released in April 2009, peaking at number 2 on the albums chart.The single, pressed as a limited edition eCD and a 10" vinyl record, was released and deleted on the same day.

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The band moved away from the Cheetham Hill studio they had recorded Lost Souls in for Revolution Studios in Manchester, Parr Street Studios in Liverpool, Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Bath, The Dairy and 2kHz Studios in London, and a cottage in Lancashire (additionally, "M62 Song" is credited as being recorded under a flyover of the M62 motorway in Northenden. The Universal Want did not enter the Billboard Top 200, but entered the US Album Sales chart at number 47. The album yielded two singles: " Kingdom of Rust" and " Winter Hill", the latter of which marked the first time a single by the band did not enter the top 100 of the Singles Chart.

M62 Song" is credited to the band and Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, and Peter Sinfield because, as stated in the album sleeve, the song is an adaptation of " Moonchild" by King Crimson. However, in a 2022 interview on the XS Long Player Podcast with Jim Salveson, Andy Williams revealed that the song was actually recorded under the M60 Motorway flyover but the band "got the name wrong" also adding that 'M62 Song' Sounds better anyway" [3]). 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. Following the release of The Places Between, Doves announced they would be taking an indefinite hiatus, during which time Jimi Goodwin released his debut solo album Odludek and the Williams brothers regrouped as Black Rivers and released an eponymous album. When we went back into the studio this time, we were determined to get rid of the perception that people had of us," said Jimi Goodwin in an interview with NME.