One Dove - Breakdown (LP)

All Music Guide

One Dove's Breakdown EP features 5 mixes of the song "Breakdown". It is one of the highlights of the brilliant Morning Dove White record. Two of the mixes of Breakdown available on the EP turned up on the album. The glittering "Radio Mix which was remixed by Stephen Hague and shows the band at their most straightforward and poppy. Dot Allison sounds positively blissful as she swoons her way through the sad lyrics. The "Cellophane Boat Mix" as remixed by William Orbit is almost as glossily wonderful and featured more moody, dubby breakdowns including an acoustic guitar break that sounds lifted right off of Primal Scream's "Loaded" The other mixes of Breakdown are "William Orbit's Stereo Odyssey" and Stereo Edit which is a shortened version of his Stereo Odyssey. All three of the Orbit mixes are remarkably similar, making one wish that they had brought in another mixer to get a more varied sound. Still any misgiving one might have about the EP are tossed out the window when Andrew Weathe...rall's epic "Squire Black Dove Rides Out" mix begins to unspool. He breaks the song down to the bare essentials, adds some truly bin rattling bass, trash can drums and some Augustus Pablostyle melodica. Weatherall was riding a peak of his creativity around this time and this mix is one of his masterpieces. It is definitely worth hunting down the disc just for his mix alone. - Tim Sendra, All Music Guide Read more Less