There Goes The Fearby Doves
DOVES formed from the ashes of their previous band, Sub Sub – literally. Resolving to start from scratch after their Ancoats studio burned down in 1996, the Manchester trio comprising twin brothers Andy and Jez Williams and vocalist Jimi Goodwin switched the emphasis away from dance music towards a soaring, northern-melancholic aesthetic, gaining a foothold with their acclaimed 2000 debut, Lost Souls .
Two years later, “There Goes The Fear” formed the formidable advance party for their second album, The Last Broadcast . Starting life with a ticklish guitar riff played into a Dictaphone, it became an epic construction, requiring eight months and five studios to piece together as it continually evolved and changed over the course of its seven minutes. Beginning with that irrepressible guitar hook, it incorporates swooping pedal steel, Goodwin’s heartfelt vocal, and a powerful lyric that finely balances regret and defiant resistance, picking up momentum as it hurtles towards an explosive crescendo of Brazilian percussion. “It shouldn’t technically work but somehow it just does,” says Andy Williams. “It felt quite ambitious for us at the time, especially the whole track morphing into this Brazilian thing.”
Released and deleted on the same day, “There Goes The Fear” became Doves first and only Top 10 single, peaking at No 3 nine
