Doves: 'Expect new album in 2012'

Doves have revealed that they will not record a new album for at least "two or three years".

According to Gigwise, the band plan to release a best-of in the meantime, but confessed that they would be taking their time on the follow-up to this year's Kingdom Of Rust.

"We've done four albums so next year, around January time, we are putting out a greatest hits collection. I know four albums isn't masses but we have been around for ages because each album takes so long to write," explained guitarist Jez Williams.

"We will have to start thinking about a fifth album after the greatest hits collection, but in all honesty, I doubt we'll finish our fifth album until at least two or three years' time."

He added: "It makes me sick just thinking about it. That's because I know it will be the start of two to three years of arguments. The thing about Doves is all three of us write each song. We're a democracy, and we always have different input into each songs so it ends up taking ages. Expect a new Doves album in 2012."

Williams also spoke about the group's forthcoming collaboration with the London Bulgarian Choir at the BBC Electric Proms on October 22.

"The BBC gave us a budget for the Electric Proms so we spanked it all on a 40-piece Bulgarian choir," he declared. "Why Bulgarian? Because they are dark. They're not cheery or upbeat singers. The gig will be quite sinister."

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