Doves
Lost Souls

THE REVIEW

Matter of destiny. I like to think that if this album had been released just a few months earlier, the Doves would have taken the place of Coldplay in enjoying (deserved) mass success.
This album, released in 2000, lacks nothing: great songs with beautiful and dreamy melodies, hints of late sixties psychedelia, excellent production, excellent choice of sounds, and a certain underlying melancholy that manages to keep the listener's attention always alive.

The Doves were once called Sub Sub, and under this name, they achieved a certain success in the dance scene in the first half of the nineties before abandoning sequencers and samplers and undergoing an incredible metamorphosis. "Lost Souls" is their debut and is stunning in its entirety, even if it lacks a single capable of topping the charts... writing pieces like "Catch The Sun", "Here It Comes", and "The Man Who Told Everything" is not exactly for everyone, but perhaps the lack of a super single or a video capable of captivating the masses, or maybe the not exactly clean and appealing look of the three group members, or perhaps just lack of luck made it so that the Doves never took the big step towards mass success. Maybe they don't care because they didn't even want this mass success and only cared about playing what they liked, but in any case, it's better this way because at least we are left with this certainty, since even if their subsequent production was not up to this sumptuous debut, they remained genuine and consistent and continued to release albums of excellent quality.

P.S.: Even though the review of "Lost Souls" is already present on the site, I wanted to pay tribute to this album very dear to me by expressing my opinion on the matter.