The Places Between: The Best of Doves
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| Released | 5 April 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 1996–2010 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | CD1: 1:19:17 CD2: 1:16:43 Total: 2:35:52 | |||
| Label | Heavenly | |||
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The Places Between: The Best of Doves is a compilation album from Manchester-based indie rock band Doves. The compilation was released on 5 April 2010 in the UK via Heavenly Recordings,[1] and on 20 April 2010 in North America via Astralwerks.[2][3] The album encompasses the band's entire career, collecting from their 2000 debut album Lost Souls, 2002's The Last Broadcast, 2005's Some Cities, and their 2009 album Kingdom of Rust, as well as an assortment of EPs and singles. The compilation was released as a standard single-disc best-of, as well as a deluxe three-disc edition, featuring the best-of album along with a bonus disc of B-sides, rarities, alternate versions, and album cuts, plus a bonus DVD collecting all of the band's music videos from 1998 through 2009.[1] It peaked at #12 on the UK Albums Chart.[4][5]
The best-of was preceded by the single "Andalucia", released to radio stations on 1 March 2010, then as a digital download-only single on 5 April 2010.[6]
In an interview with Spinner.com, Jimi Goodwin stated that the band was "very involved" in selecting tracks to comprise the track listings, stating that, "Hopefully, it stands up to things like Songs to Learn & Sing by Echo & the Bunnymen, because I look at those as albums in their own right; you forget that they're compilations."[7] Jez Williams stated in an interview with musicOMH that track selection was refreshing: "When you finish an album quite often you get out of the studio and just want to get away from it. I thought that it was interesting listening to this, because normally when we finish an album you wouldn't hear it again. It was great hearing the B-sides too. We feel we've written some pretty strong B-sides, but you get that thing where we're described as anthemic a lot, which is great, but I think the B-sides reveal a few other sides to us. It shows a lot more than what we're known for."[8] Goodwin also told The Daily Record that the compilation is "wiping the slate clean – we have nothing else in the vaults now. That is it. Whatever we do from now on will be a new start."[9][10]
The band's recording hiatus lasted for over ten years, until they released their fifth studio album The Universal Want in September 2020. In the interim, Goodwin released a solo album entitled Odludek in 2014, while Jez and Andy Williams regrouped as Black Rivers and released an eponymously titled album in 2015.
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [11] |
| BBC | very positive[12] |
| Clash | 9/10[13] |
| Drowned in Sound | 5/10[14] |
| The Fly | [15] |
| IndieLondon | [16] |
| musicOMH | [17] |
| Pitchfork | 7.8/10[18] |
| PopMatters | 8/10[19] |
| Q | [20] |
The Places Between was met with very positive reviews. PopMatters awarded the compilation an 8 out of 10 rating, noting that, "When it comes to the singles they've put out... the consistency has been remarkable, with not a dud in the lot, the band putting out some of the most finely crafted rock songs to come out of the UK of late."[19] Clash awarded the album a 9 out of 10 and called the collection "a beguiling celebration of truly excellent music."[13] IndieLondon gave the album 5 out of 5 stars, calling the album "a best-of collection to savour,"[16] and the BBC hailed The Places Between as "a collection of monumental music to truly cherish."[12]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Jez Williams, Jimi Goodwin, and Andy Williams.
| No. | Title | Producer | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "There Goes the Fear" | Doves | 6:55 |
| 2. | "Black and White Town" | Doves, Ben Hillier | 4:15 |
| 3. | "Snowden" (Rich Costey Mix) | Doves, Ben Hillier | 4:10 |
| 4. | "Here It Comes" | Doves | 4:53 |
| 5. | "Words" | Doves | 5:44 |
| 6. | "Kingdom of Rust" | Doves, Dan Austin | 5:11 |
| 7. | "Sea Song" | Doves | 5:17[A] |
| 8. | "Pounding" | Doves | 4:45 |
| 9. | "10:03" | John Leckie, Doves | 4:04 |
| 10. | "Catch the Sun" | Doves, Steve Osborne | 4:48 |
| 11. | "Jetstream" | Doves, Dan Austin | 5:31 |
| 12. | "The Man Who Told Everything" (Summer Version) | Doves | 5:41 |
| 13. | "Andalucia" | Doves, Dan Austin | 4:21 |
| 14. | "Caught by the River" | Doves, Steve Osborne | 5:55 |
| 15. | "The Cedar Room" | Doves | 7:39 |
Bonus disc track listing
All tracks are written by Jez Williams, Jimi Goodwin, and Andy Williams, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer | Length |
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| 1. | "Blue Water" | Doves | 4:31 | |
| 2. | "Eleven Miles Out" | Doves, Ben Hillier | 4:27 | |
| 3. | "Rise" | Doves | 5:17[B] | |
| 4. | "Darker" | Doves | 5:50 | |
| 5. | "Push Me On" | John Leckie, Doves | 3:54 | |
| 6. | "Willow's Song" (Bury Version) | Traditional; arranged by Doves | Doves | 3:53 |
| 7. | "Valley" | Doves | 4:24 | |
| 8. | "Northenden" | Doves | 3:53 | |
| 9. | "M62 Song" | Williams, Goodwin, Williams, Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield | Doves | 3:42 |
| 10. | "The Drifter" (featuring Simon Aldred) | Doves, Dan Austin | 3:59 | |
| 11. | "Friday's Dust" (Capitol Tower Session) | Doves | 3:23 | |
| 12. | "Almost Forgot Myself" (Demo) | Doves | 4:40 | |
| 13. | "Your Shadow Lay Across My Life" | Doves | 3:46 | |
| 14. | "The Last Son" | Doves, Dan Austin | 4:38 | |
| 15. | "The Sulphur Man" | Doves | 4:37 | |
| 16. | "At the Tower" (Instrumental Edit) | Williams, Goodwin, Williams, Hazlewood | Doves, Ben Hillier | 3:50 |
| 17. | "Reprise" | Doves | 1:52 | |
| 18. | "Ambition" | Doves, Ben Hillier | 3:43[C] | |
| 19. | "Firesuite" (Noise Version) | Doves | 2:22[D] |
| No. | Title | Producer | Length |
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| 20. | "Brazil" | Doves, Dan Austin | 3:36 |
DVD track listing
| No. | Title | Director | Length |
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| 1. | "The Cedar Room" | Matthew Norman | 4:48 |
| 2. | "Sea Song" | Rick Myers | 4:36 |
| 3. | "Here It Comes" | Rick Myers, Julian Cooper, Rich Mulhearn, and Mat Burhouse | 4:54 |
| 4. | "Catch the Sun" | Sophie Muller | 4:19 |
| 5. | "The Man Who Told Everything" | Sam Brown | 4:39 |
| 6. | "There Goes the Fear" | Julian House and Julian Gibbs | 4:57 |
| 7. | "Pounding" | Julian House and Julian Gibbs | 4:19 |
| 8. | "Caught by the River" | David Mould | 4:33 |
| 9. | "Black and White Town" (Director's Cut) | Lynne Ramsay | 4:21 |
| 10. | "Snowden" (Live Edit) | Dominic Leung | 4:12 |
| 11. | "Sky Starts Falling" | Reuben Sutherland | 4:00 |
| 12. | "Kingdom of Rust" | China Moo-Young | 4:29 |
| 13. | "Winter Hill" | David Mould | 3:49 |
| Total length: | 57:00 (approximately) | ||
- The DVD also features the videos for "There Goes the Fear", "Pounding" and "Caught by the River" in 5.1 Surround Sound.
Release history
| Country | Date | Label | Format | Catalogue # |
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| United Kingdom | 5 April 2010 | Heavenly Recordings/Virgin Records | CD | HVNLP78CD |
| 2CD/1DVD | HVNLP78CDX | |||
| United States | 20 April 2010 | Heavenly/Virgin (distributed by Astralwerks) | 2CD/1DVD | HVNLP78CDX (5099962801423) |
Charts
| Chart (2010) | Peak position |
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| UK Albums Chart[4] | 12 |
| Scottish Albums Chart[5] | 13 |
| Irish Albums Chart[21] | 57 |
Certifications
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United Kingdom (BPI)[22] | Silver | 60,000‡ |
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‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
Notes
Disc one:
- Tracks 4, 7, 10, and 15 taken from Lost Souls (April 2000)
- Original version of track 12 taken from Lost Souls; Summer Version taken from the single "The Man Who Told Everything" (October 2000)
- Tracks 1, 5, 8, and 14 taken from The Last Broadcast (April 2002)
- Track 2 taken from Some Cities (February 2005)
- Original version of track 3 taken from Some Cities; Rich Costey Mix taken from the single "Snowden" (May 2005)
- Tracks 6, 9, and 11 taken from Kingdom of Rust (April 2009)
- Track 13: previously unreleased
Disc two:
- Tracks 1, 6, 10, 11, 12, and 16: previously unreleased
- Track 2 and the original version of track 16 taken from the single "Black and White Town" (February 2005)
- Tracks 3 and 17 taken from Lost Souls (April 2000)
- Track 4 taken from the Sea EP (May 1999)
- Track 5 taken from the single "Kingdom of Rust" (March 2009)
- Track 7 taken from the single "Catch the Sun" (May 2000)
- Track 8 taken from the single "Pounding" (July 2002)
- Tracks 9 and 15 taken from The Last Broadcast (April 2002)
- Tracks 13 and 19 taken from the single "The Man Who Told Everything" (October 2000)
- Track 14 taken from the UK iTunes-only release of Kingdom of Rust (April 2009)
- Track 18 taken from Some Cities (February 2005)
Run time notes:
- A ^ Though not listed as an edit on the track listing, the full-length album version of "Sea Song" runs 6:12
- B ^ The full-length album version of "Rise" runs 5:38
- C ^ This version omits the ambient noise found at the end of the album version
- D ^ The full-length Noise Version of "Firesuite" runs 3:09
