869. The Doves - The Last Broadcast

The Last Broadcast is a much more varied album than Lost Souls - the band is clearly more confident creatively and in the studio production wise. "There Goes The Fear" and "M62 Song" couldn't be more different, their only common ground being that they are back to back on the same album. One of my favourite tracks is "Pounding" which manages in the best 80's brit pop tradition to capture the end of the school year for me when I was 15 - exams were over, it was time to go to the beach, listen to records, watch movies and think about girls.

8.5 out of 10

Pounding