Hailing from past those white cliffs in a suburb of Madrid, Dover comprise of sisters Cristina (vox/guitar) & Amparo (guitar) Llanos, bassist Alvaro Diez and drummer Jesus Antunez. With over a million records sold, Dover are not strangers on the continent, yet in Britain we’re more likely to add Ben to their name and make a joke.
Described by some as punk-rock, Dover are truer to fairly pop/rock friendly sound heavily influenced by the girl fronted US groups. Singing in English rather than their native tongue should make crossing the channel easier, yet few will see anything drastically new here.
If however, you are in need of some 3-minute melodies Dover could well be what your looking for. If the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are too noisy, No Doubt too pop or Save Ferris too, well damn cheesy, then Dover could be the missing median.
Opening track and title track ‘The Flame’ starts with a drum beat reminiscent of mid-career Green Day, and continues to echo that feel. ‘My Fault’ begins furiously, and you could be forgiven for thinking it was a cover of Nirvana’s ‘Breed’. Cristina sounds like Renee Zellweger in film ‘Empire Records’.
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Dover are interesting without being revolutionary, fresh yet will still draw comparisons with Hole. Overall this album is a nice collection of nice pop rock tracks.
If you like this, try these:
Sleater Kinney – “All hands on the bad one”
Hole – “Live Through This”
Angelica – “Angelica”
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