kendal calling

Whilst all is calm in Doves world at the moment, its a good time to highlight another band not called Doves. Tomorrow see’s the release of the debut album by Barnsley’s finest Exit Calm. Obviously fans of Doves themselves, they have been walking onto the live stage to the sound of The Cedar Room.

Here is what Drowned In Sound are saying about the record:

at its peak, Exit Calm soars with a grace and panache that simply leaves its peers on both sides of the Atlantic for dead. With one foot in the shoegaze camp and the other firmly entrenched in post-rock’s elegant stupor, Exit Calm have a tendency to mesmerise and astound in equal measure. The opening six-minute epic that is ‘You’ve Got It All Wrong’ may be the most dazzling, hairs-standing-on-the-back-of-the-neck introduction to a record since Interpol’s ‘Untitled’ or even ‘I Wanna Be Adored’ before it. Rob Marshall’s signature guitar sound may echo that of Nick McCabe circa A Storm In Heaven in part, but there’s an incessant virtuosity abound here that lifts the opener, ‘We’re On Our Own’ and forthcoming single ‘Hearts And Minds’ onto another plane all of its own making.

For the full review, click here.

Well worth checking out. Released on the Club AC30 label. You can see Exit Calm play on the same stage as Doves at Kendal Calling & Hartlepool’s Tall Ships festival.