DOVES confront lost time with 'Lean Into The Wind'
DOVES confront temptation, surrender and lost time with smouldering, cautionary track ahead of Record Store Day 2025…
LEAN INTO THE WIND
Doves – Lean Into The Wind
OUT NOW via streaming services
Ltd. Red 10” Vinyl AA-Side release with Cally – 2000 Copies
Record Store Day – Sat 12 April 2025
The new album, Constellations For The Lonely – OUT NOW
EMI North
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DOVES have opened the secret vault of the studio sessions that bore the fruits of their recent UK Official Album Chart Top 5 album, Constellations For The Lonely, to reveal the driving atmospherics of the Lean Into The Wind, the previously unreleased lead track from their upcoming, limited edition Record Store Day 2025 vinyl release. Accompanied by a second song, Cally, the strictly-limited AA-side 10” red vinyl puts two Jimi Goodwin-fronted songs to the fore, with the lead track’s advance, digital release seeing the band confront dark forces that easily tempt the lonely and lost.
Completing a celebratory and SOLD-OUT UK Tour last month, reuniting with fans in some corners of the country for the first time in over 15 years, the release of even more new music from Doves keeps up momentum during the band’s busiest period since returning from hiatus seven years ago.
Heading into festival season with landmark, outdoor appearances on the horizon, including a headline show at Halifax’s Piece Hall on Sat 23 August 2025, the band’s expanded songbook is set to find added poignancy and power beneath starlit summer skies.
Whilst still absent from the band’s touring line-up, Goodwin’s prominence at the head and heart of Lean Into The Wind, a song made richer by the enduring collaborative spirit shared between the singer and bandmates, Andy and Jez Williams, ensures his distinctive voice is heard. Managing his well-publicised personal health challenges at the same time as writing and recording, the song comes laden with caution and compassion.
“It’s all there in the lyrics, it’s about addiction,” says Goodwin. “It’s drawn from a situation I was in at the time and, although I am inspired more by making songs about characters, this literally happened to me. Going to someone’s house, trying something and it consuming you within days. I am not ashamed of it; it’s a story of what can happen and it’s not uncommon. It happens to people every day, hopefully it’s a cautionary tale.”
Maintaining an unhurried, organic approach to writing, Lean Into The Wind’s origins lie in guitarist and vocalist, Jez Williams working through the initial musical inspiration before the ‘Doves filter’ came into play and Goodwin and drummer and vocalist, Andy Williams found themselves under the skin of the song and contributing lyrics.
Andy Williams says: “Jimi took the song away and came back with the first verse. There was just instant recognition that it was about some of the stuff he must have been going through. Ultimately, it had real authenticity to it, just like everything he does. In writing the second verse, all I could do was imagine what he’d been through and what he’d been feeling. Hopefully it’s a song that resonates.”
Originally demoed in its most basic, early form in the Portuguese city of Porto, the band worked through both Lean Into The Wind and Cally during sessions for their critically-acclaimed, sixth studio album, Constellations For The Lonely. Released last month, it followed up 2020’s The Universal Want, the band’s third UK No.1 album after 2002’s modern classic, The Last Broadcast and 2005’s Some Cities.
Giving everything they had to please the rarity hunters as well as anyone buying tickets to hear the hits, the Doves live line-up, featuring Andy and Jez Williams on vocal duties, enjoyed one of their most successful nationwide tours to date throughout March, including two memorable, sold-out nights at Manchester’s Aviva Factory. Taking to the road again over the warmer months, all of Doves upcoming outdoor headline and festival appearances are as follows:
Fri 30 May - Madrid, Tomavistas Festival
Sun 1 June - Cheltenham, Wychwood Festival
Thu 17 July - Reading, Heritage Festival
Sat 19 July - Sunderland, Monument Festival
Sat 26 July - Bexhill, Pavillion Lawns
Sun 27 July - Suffolk, Latitude Festival
Fri 22 Aug - Cumbria, Solfest
Sat 23 Aug - Halifax, Piece Hall
Fri 29 Aug - Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne Festival
Sun 31 Aug - Birmingham, Moseley Folk & Arts Festival
Details of tickets for all upcoming headline shows and festival appearances are available via links hosted on www.dovesofficial.com with fans urged to join the band’s mailing list to be alerted to future live announcements.
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