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Jan 08, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Manchester-based trio Doves are releasing a new album, Constellations For the Lonely, on February 14 via EMI North. Now they have shared its second single, “Cold Dreaming,” via a music video. Hingston Studio directed the video. Watch it below, followed by the band’s upcoming tour dates.

Previously Doves shared the album’s first single, “Renegade,” via a music video. “Renegade” was one of our Songs of the Week.

Constellations For the Lonely is the band’s sixth album and follows 2020’s The Universal Want, which was their first album in 11 years after an eight-year hiatus. The band launched writing and recording sessions for the new album as early as 2020.

Doves is Jimi Goodwin (lead vocals, bass) and brothers Andy Williams (drums, vocals) and Jez Williams (guitar, vocals).

The band wrote, recorded, and produced the album in Greater Manchester, North Wales, and Cheshire. Long-term collaborator Dan Austin contributed additional production. Constellations For the Lonely finds Goodwin taking a bit of a step back, with him contributing in the studio, but not touring the record. The Williams brothers will be sharing lead vocals live.

Andy Williams had this to say about the new single in a press release: “‘Cold Dreaming’ is a song about forgiveness. Trying to forgive and move on. As a minimum, these days, resilience is the thing that you need more than ever, certainly as a musician. Perhaps the lyrics do touch a bit on what we’ve been through.”

Doves have released five albums: 2000’s Lost Souls, 2002’s The Last Broadcast, 2005’s Some Cities, 2009’s Kingdom of Rust, and 2020’s The Universal Want.

Read our interview with Doves on The Universal Want.

We go way back with Doves, they were interviewed about Lost Souls in our very first print issue in 2001 and we have covered every album since.

Doves Tour Dates:

Tue 25 Feb – Glasgow, SWG3 – Limited tickets
Wed 26 Feb – Edinburgh, La Belle Angele – SOLD OUT
Thu 27 Feb – Newcastle, Boiler Shop – SOLD OUT
Sat 1 Mar – Leeds, Beckett SU – SOLD OUT
Sun 2 Mar – Sheffield, Leadmill – SOLD OUT
Tue 4 Mar – Liverpool, O2 Academy – SOLD OUT
Thu 6 Mar – Manchester, Aviva Studios, home of Factory International – SOLD OUT
Fri 7 Mar – Manchester, Aviva Studios, home of Factory International – SOLD OUT
Sun 8 Mar – Birmingham, O2 Institute – Limited tickets
Mon 10 Mar – Nottingham, Rock City – Limited tickets
Tue 11 Mar – Norwich, Waterfront – SOLD OUT
Thu 13 Mar – London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire – SOLD OUT
Fri 14 Mar – Bristol, SWX – SOLD OUT
Sat 15 Mar – Southampton, Engine Rooms – SOLD OUT
Mon 17 Mar – Brighton, Chalk – SOLD OUT
Tue 18 Mar – Oxford, O2 Academy – Limited tickets

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