Doves - Some Cities (***/****)

Doves' Some Cities is the album you put on at high volume in the car at 8 am on a Saturday morning as you're leaving for a road trip. Sometimes sparse and frazzled Brit-rock with stomping drums, sometimes Blur-like with poppy keyboard touches, sometimes heartfelt and well-executed mellower songs, Some Cities takes you on a journey. Don't play this album on shuffle. The obvious comparisons to Coldplay are unfair, because although the similarities are there the Doves have their own thing going on.

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