Black Rivers
Self Titled
Ignition Records (2015)
For the last few years any musical output with brothers Jez and Andy Williams at the helm has sounded otherworldly, like it's trying to capture some impossible-to-comprehend expanse that stretches beyond the atmosphere. As two-thirds of Mancunian outfit Doves, there was ready admittance between all three band members that when they were working on tracklists for their albums they would all drive, separately, to nowhere in particular, and more than once they all coincidentally reconvened at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, home to numerous radio telescopes exploring and monitoring the atmosphere beyond earth, and, more recently, doubling up as an occasional concert venue.There's always a risk involved when bands go their separate ways (albeit an indefinite hiatus, such as in the case of Doves) and erstwhile band members get involved in new projects. There's the chance that this new freedom to pursue the ideas that have been in the back of a band member's mind for many years, when finally given an opportunity to flourish, will fall flat. That some of the original spark they had will be gone, that some things will get lost in translation. On their eponymous debut, Black Rivers manage to evoke the psychedelic haze … Read more
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Epitaph (2015)
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Toxic Pop (2014)
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Home Is Where The Hatred Is
Relapse (2015)
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