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Doves issued a third digital-only single in advance of the album with "Saint Teresa" on 10 February 2025, shortly after the announcement of a special red-coloured 10" vinyl single release of deluxe edition bonus tracks "Cally" and "Lean into the Wind" for Record Store Day on 12 April 2025.
The album has also been certified platinum by the BPI. [2] In February 2005, Doves released their third studio album Some Cities, which again topped the albums chart at number 1, and produced the hit single "Black and White Town", which charted at number 6, and the minor hit "Snowden", which peaked at number 17. [1]
The sleeve design and artwork was done by frequent Doves collaborator and art director Rick Myers. Myers has done the artwork and design for all of Doves' albums and singles from 1998's Cedar EP to the band's compilation album The Places Between: The Best of Doves in 2010. [36]
It was self-released on the band's Casino Records label (co-founded by Rob Gretton) on 9 November 1998 on limited 10" vinyl. The epic track "The Cedar Room" later became the band's first single from their debut album Lost Souls. Following the release of the Cedar EP, Doves briefly joined Badly Drawn Boy as his backing band.
Doves wrote, recorded, and mixed the album within eight months, "which for Doves was incredibly fast," concluded Jez Williams. [4] "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.
The Universal Want is the fifth studio album by British rock band Doves.The album was released by Heavenly Recordings and Virgin/EMI on 11 September 2020. [1] The Universal Want is the band's first album following a hiatus that began in 2010; the band members pursued solo projects in the interim.
The album was born from a tumultuous time in Doves' history, [1] and followed a four-year gap between their last album Some Cities in 2005, at the time the longest period between albums from the band. Doves would tour to promote the album throughout 2009, culminating in a recording hiatus in 2010 which would subsequently last until 2020.
Some Cities was released in the United Kingdom on 21 February 2005, where it entered the UK Albums Chart at number 1. [4] The album was released on several different formats in the UK: the standard CD and double 12" vinyl LP, and also as a special edition with a bonus DVD containing a short documentary entitled Cities Under Construction, featuring the making of the album inside a purple ...