Doves returned with their first new music in over four years and a new album released in early 2025. The sixth album from Jimi Goodwin, Andy and Jez Williams.
'Constellations For The Lonely' cemented the band's fifth top ten record in the Official UK Album Chart.
This was followed up with a collection of the band's best and favourites from the archive on 'So, Here We Are: Best Of Doves', released in November 2025.
'Filthy Underneath' – the inaugural release on EMI North – chronicles a period of unprecedented turbulence in Nadine Shah’s life. And yet, the experience of listening to it is oddly life-affirming – a parade of ghosts spanning the entirety of Nadine’s thirty-seven years, moving with balletic beauty to the music that Nadine and long-time collaborator and producer Ben Hillier have created around them.
On the album’s sensational lead single "Topless Mother", her double-tracked harmonies converge with a physically irresistible groove which locates an improbable equidistant point between outright pop and The Creatures. Inspired by a series of comically tense exchanges with a counsellor, the song alights on her counsellor’s unorthodox tendency to burst into tears if she felt she wasn’t getting anywhere with her patient, the chorus trip-switching into a free-associative list of three-syllable words. The tone here is never less than no-fucks-given celebratory, an instant fan favourite to rub shoulders alongside her best.
For a band tempted to start over entirely, walt disco’s new music doesn’t erase the past: it turns it into art worth living.
Rather than a rebirth, the band’s next era is something harder won: a continuation, sharpened by doubt, grounded in their evolving personal identities, and driven by the belief that they can still become exactly what they were chasing all along - a generation-defining band who dared to do something unique.
‘Coup de foudre’ captures this newfound clarity for walt disco perfectly: a raw, immediate rush of 2000s indie dancefloor intensity, which channels the sharp directness of Yeah Yeah Yeahs into today’s concerns.
Built around the French phrase for a sudden, electric connection, ‘Coup de foudre’ is a lustful, fast-paced jolt that few walt disco followers - least of all the band themselves - might have seen coming. “It’s fun to have a horny, chaotic song as [a] first taste,” says frontperson Jocelyn.
Listen to 'Coup de foudre' here
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