"He's an excellent set of ears and a great producer. "We were impressed by Dan and it felt right to work together again,” Jez remembers. They had the EMI TG board in there and we went to 16‑track, 2-inch at 15ips, so it was a proper old sound.” They wanted to do something very vintage‑sounding. The songs were ready to record, so there wasn't a lot of messing around, it was just all about getting a sound. "It was just the tracking I was involved with, but it went fantastically well. "I recorded three tracks on that at 2kHz in London,” he recalls. Kingdom Of Rust co‑producer Dan Austin (Massive Attack, Cherry Ghost) first engineered for Doves in 2004 during the recording of Some Cities. Then quite a few songs started to come out of these sessions.” In Controlĭan Austin engineered and co‑produced the bulk of Kingdom Of Rust. I had my Logic all set up as a template, everything plugged in ready to go. I'm simplifying it here, but basically what it boils down to is you have to write a song every half an hour for 12 hours. "Like music avoidance - instead of knuckling down and getting on with songwriting, you might find an excuse to get your emails or pop out and see your mates. "I was finding myself getting into bad habits,” he says. There was a bit of writer's block involved too, which the guitarist tackled by employing the radical Immersion Music Method, invented in 2001 by a pair of songwriters from Oakland, California. Williams admits that it wasn't just this democratic approach, along with an obsessive attention to detail, that created such a long gap between Doves albums.
"But, y'know, because Doves is a democracy, everyone has an equal opinion, therefore the old wheel of democracy turns at a slower pace than it would under a dictator.” Out Of The Blocks They would dearly love, Jez insists, to make their records faster.
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That's not to say that the Wilmslow trio - twins Jez (guitar) and Andy (drums) Williams, plus singer/bassist Jimi Goodwin - are particularly happy about their apparently tortoise‑like work rate. Instead, it turns out that the band have been painstakingly crafting the follow‑up, Kingdom Of Rust, already rightfully hailed as their best record to date. Missing in action since 2005's Some Cities, it might have been reasonable to assume that we'd heard the last of Doves.
Doves have overcome writer's block, the perils of democracy and a silly studio name to produce an early contender for album of the year.ĭoves (from left): Andy Williams, Jimi Goodwin and Jez Williams.
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