Amazon.com: This Scottish trio offers the most commercial expression yet of the current U.K. obsession with spacey ambient "chill out" music, as practiced by The Orb and Sven Vaith, among others. While much of the dragged-out, slow-paced material here suggests Bananarama on downers, the Stephen Hague remixes of, "Breakdown" and "White Love" say their piece and sign-off quickly. --Jeff Bateman
the great unknown I fell in love with this CD the first time I ever heard it. After this, I desperately waited for the follow up album, but low and behold it never came. Unfortunately, the band never got the audience it so rightly deserved, and they went their separate ways. Now I really like Dot Allison's solo work, but it just isn't One Dove.
If you ever get the chance to hear this CD, you must. It is such a wonderful blend of good beats with great atmosphere. It isn't run of the mill like all the "electronica" (oh how I hate that word) that was big at the time of this release, so it is a pleasant experience. I guess the closest comparison I could give to this CD is Lamb. If you like Lamb, I think you will definitely like this CD. A lost treasure!
Splendid This album represents what came out of the British post-rave scene at its best. This is the only record that One Dove would make but what a record. It has been described as the perfect come-down record by everybody and I suppose it really is. In that sense it is very different from the acid music it is supposed to follow. It is almost the masterpiece that many pretend Screamadelica is. Dot Allison would go on to an interesting solo career but this record is splendid: the laid back playing really suits her smooth voice.
Dreamy Classic I first bought this CD when it first came out years ago, and I listened to it constantly. The music is spacey but not weird, it packs a punch, and Dot Allison's voice is heavenly. During one of my many moves, this disc went missing and I've hunted high and low for it in record shops everywhere. Don't bother with itunes or MSN music, you can probably only find it used online, but it is well worth hunting down. It can function as sex music, nap music or background mood music.
sheer beauty One of my favourite albums of all time. Unbeleivable that this was as overlooked as it was. It's over 10 years old, and still sounds unique and fresh -shame they split up before releasing another album. As much as I like Dots solo releases, they just haven't yet reached (IMHO) up to this seminal piece of work.
Brooding, Eerie, Stylish, Autumnal Electronica......... Thanks to a Recommendation from a friend, this sparkling album is an gradually unfolding emotional envelope of blissful Electronica/Alternative Dance/Ballads & slight Dub. Heartfelt singer `Dot Alison' is the shining vocalist in this inspired collection of Shimmering World music influences "(The Transient) Truth", epic guitar noise "White Love (Guitar Paradise Mix)", and melancholic piano ballads "White love (Piano Reprise)", all sonically linked by a rich production, and an approach to each song, by starting most tracks with percussion instrumentals, and gradually & slowly building and texturing the sound with swathes of sonic colour, until progressing into fully fledged full blown songs of epic structure. But unfortunately the band were to split before recording a follow-up (with producer `Andy Weatherall' pursuing a lucrative producer career, and singer `Dot Alison', releasing a solo album in 1998), so this is your only chance to discover what could have possibly been a defining act of the 90's. and for those that enjoy this album should consider buying singer 'Dot Alison's' solo album.
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