{"product_id":"the-doves-so-here-we-are-best-of-doves","title":"The Doves - So Here We Are: Best Of Doves [2LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eSmall flag: the band is just Doves, no \"The\" — worth fixing in the product title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo Here We Are gathers twenty-five years of Doves' melancholic euphoria onto 2LP, a quarter century on from the debut that started it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Manchester trio's origin story is one of the best in British music. Jimi Goodwin and twin brothers Jez and Andy Williams spent the early 1990s as Sub Sub, a dance act with a genuine hit to their name, until their studio burned to the ground in 1996 and took everything with it. What they rebuilt was a guitar band, and Lost Souls arrived in 2000 sounding like people who had learned something about loss the hard way. Three UK number one albums and more than a million records later, the melancholy never left, and neither did the euphoria.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere Goes the Fear is still the centrepiece, seven minutes that build and build before dissolving into a hail of Brazilian percussion, one of the great album-closing gestures deployed as a single. Black and White Town rides a Motown piano stomp into something far bleaker than the tempo suggests, Catch the Sun is pure widescreen optimism, and Kingdom of Rust remains their most beautiful song, a slow drift with the sound of a place gone quiet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-picked from six albums, and it plays like a band who never once made the obvious record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52075530682673,"sku":"602478666919","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/The_Doves-So_Here_We_Are_Best_Of_Doves_2LP.jpg?v=1787472606","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/the-doves-so-here-we-are-best-of-doves","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}