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Some Cities
''Some Cities'' is the third studio album by the British indie rock band Doves. The album was released by Heavenly Records on 21 February 2005, and became the band's second consecutive album to top the UK Albums Chart at number 1. ''Some Cities'' was conceived as a rawer, stripped-down record, and conceptually touches upon the physical changes of the band's hometown of Manchester, as well as emotional transformations. The album features the band's second-highest charting single, "Black and White Town", which peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart.
==Background and recording==
After the worldwide success of Doves' second album ''The Last Broadcast'', Jez Williams recalled, in a 2010 interview with ''Under the Radar'' following the release of the band's compilation album ''The Places Between: The Best of Doves'', that the band decided to take a more "stripped-down" approach to recording ''Some Cities'', which included decamping to rural locations in England, Scotland, and Wales. "With that album we were also wanting to make a few social comments about the area we lived in. There's a lot of subject matter on that album dealing with change. Buildings get ripped down and replaced by more generic ones. It kind of gave ourselves a bit of purpose to write about it. We also listened to a lot of Motown and Northern soul, and I think that came out in that album. It was a definite change. Our albums do tend to change character and personality with every release." The band co-produced ''Some Cities'' with Ben Hillier, who also mixed the album (except for "Some Cities" and "Walk in Fire", which were mixed by Rich Costey). Much of the recording occurred at a farmhouse in the English countryside over the course of 2004, except for closing track "Ambition", which was recorded in an empty Benedictine monastery in Scotland, which the band had found while doing a photo shoot for the album. The huge reverb effect was achieved using the acoustics of the main hall. The recording process is shown in the mini-documentary ''Cities Under Construction'', featured on the bonus DVD included with the special edition of the album.
In a 2010 interview with Spinner.com, Jimi Goodwin stated, "I look back fondly at the ''Some Cities'' period, going to this old schoolhouse in Scotland with Ben Nevis out the window. I spent six weeks up there and didn't want to come home; my mum had just died and I just wanted to be away."
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