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Albumism’s 100 Best Albums of 2020 | #10: Doves' ‘The Universal Want’

December 6, 2020 Albumism Staff
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#10 | DOVES | The Universal Want
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According to Justin Chadwick: “Across each of their five studio albums, Doves have continually refined their penchant for examining the ever-vacillating emotions, the ennui and elation that define the human condition, as we survive one day to the next. And as we all currently await the light at the end of this very dark tunnel we find ourselves in at the moment, The Universal Want reminds us that our irresolution—these conflicted feelings of anger, defiance, exasperation, fear, hope, sadness and everything in between—is not an exercise in futility, but rather the very essence of being and staying alive.”

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