DOVE
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DOVE
Dove is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Belly, released on May 4, 2018. It was released twenty-three years after Belly's previous album King (1995) and their subsequent disbandment. The band reformed in 2016, and, following a successful reunion tour, chose to crowdfund a new album which would become Dove. -WIKIPEDIA
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Pitchfork
May 8, 2018 - The excellent Dove, Belly’s first album since the Clinton administration, picks up where their ‘90s output left off, yielding not a millimeter to notions of propriety.
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RollingStone
May 4, 2018 - Is About Much More Than Nineties Nostalgia.
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DROWNED IN SOUND
April 5, 2018 - There is also no denying that Dove bears absolutely no hint of anything that has happened in music in the last 20 years: it is an old fashioned indie-pop record with bright, crunchy guitars and wry, scuffed, romantic lyrics.
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musicOMH
May 4, 2018 - Overall the album has a charming positivity, which is an increasingly rare find, and errs for the most part just on the right side of saccharine.
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The Line of Best Fit
May 7, 2018 - an album of texture.
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ALL MUSIC
something of a mixed bag.
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AV/MUSIC
May 4, 2018 - Shaving a few of the middling cuts like “Heartstrings” and “Stars Align” would have helped the album overall, as Belly’s comeback songs runs together in a cranky sea of relationship angst.
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HIghway Queens
Dove is the sound of a band setting themselves free from their history, ready to take flight again.
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spunik music
May 12, 2018 - Forget the Belly of the '90s and come to this with fresh ears, and you might be in for a treat.
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THE YOUNG FOLKS
May 14, 2018 - Dove proves that they’ve used the last two decades to nail down their priorities, both musically and philosophically.
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Py Korry
May 16, 2018 - Dove is not a perfect record, but it has strength that comes from over time.
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CRYPTIC ROCK
May 4, 2018 - Dove, is a departure from the almost exclusively Alternative Rock sound of its golden days
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13th Floor
May 2, 2018 - This is a strong album and, pardon the pun, dove-tales nicely with their earlier efforts.
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The Times
May 4, 2018 - This reunion album picks up where the band left off, with searing riffs, reverberating guitars and emotive vocals from Donelly.
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TREBLE
Dove is the sound of the band’s cranky engine trying to turn over, and now we just have to wait and see if they can get back up to speed, let alone to jangle.
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SLANT
April 26, 2018 - Belly might take a more conventional approach to their music now, but Dove proves it can still take flight.
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SPECTRUM CULTURE
May 9, 2018 - Thank Belly for reviving a sound that maybe never should have disappeared in the first place.
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The Guardian
July 17, 2018 - Tanya Donelly's inspired band is back, and will surely be staying.
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Stomp and Stammer
Aug 2, 2018 - in my opinion, the story of waiting 20 years to hear this record is really more interesting than the actual album itself.
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mxdwn.com
May 4, 2018 - While Star and King, Belly’s first two albums, were oozing with ethereal softness, Dove packs more of a punch.
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MR HIPSTER
I’m honestly not even sure it’s worth talking about this album, as it’s a vanilla record filled with mid-tempo vanilla songs with lyrics that are at times cringe-worthy, but usually innocuous.
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QRO
Dove isn’t going to make Belly co-headline with Radiohead any time soon, and at first fans excited at the reunion might be a bit disappointed with only just liking, not loving, the new album. But it not only holds up, indeed grows on you.
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Higher Plain Music
Belly’s “Dove” is a superb rock album.
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ALT ROCK PEOPLE
May 4, 2018 - Diehard fans will be happy to hear that Donnelly still uses plenty of cosmic, new-age imagery. But the time off has worked in her favor. She sounds more like a star than ever.
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stereoboard.com
May 29, 2018 - there’s a feeling that we’re getting an album of Donelly’s more mediocre solo offerings than the full-blown Belly experience we've been waiting so long for.
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