The most powerful aspect of 3-man band Doves is that their sound can be so big it seems to expand the very space in which we’re listening. Kingdom of Rust sonically builds a stadium and then proceeds to meticulously fill it, often building a song so naturally that its growth appears organic. Doves’ sound is so sweeping, so epic that it conjures an un-peopled, reverberating frontier rather than the Manchester setting in which the band developed. more ›