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7.4

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  • Summary: The third full-length release for the alternative rock band is its first in 23 years and was produced by the band's guitarist Tom Gorman and Paul Q. Kolderie.
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  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Classic Rock Magazine
    Jun 8, 2018
    80
    The music on Dove finds a band not only reinvigorated, but also taking enormous pleasure in its activities. [Jun 2018, p.91]
  2. Uncut
    May 1, 2018
    80
    It sounds, to its considerable credit, very much like the record that might have followed. [Jun 2018, p.24]
  3. Q Magazine
    May 8, 2018
    80
    A little indie olive branch, Dove is as welcoming as it is welcome. [Jul 2018, p.108]
  4. May 1, 2018
    70
    Belly might take a more conventional approach to their music now, but Dove proves it can still take flight.
  5. May 4, 2018
    70
    It's a comfortable return for a band that didn't worry itself with fitting into a particular pop or rock moment back in the day, and still had enough in common to make meaningful, quality music.
  6. May 15, 2018
    60
    As a rule, Dove meshes into a good album that might be accounted a small disappointment if this was 1995, but is a pretty spectacular accomplishment for a group of semi-retired musicians in their fifties.
  7. May 4, 2018
    58
    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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