The Manchester-based band Doves announced their sixth studio album, Constellations for the Lonely, set for release on February 28, 2025 via EMI North. Signing off their last chapter with the release of their third UK chart-peaking album, 2020’s boundary-pushing, The Universal Want, the release of first single "Renegade" from the forthcoming LP concludes a patchwork of writing and recording sessions that began in the same year. Reading from the same page on their new single’s sense of dystopian drama, all three Doves own sense of change, uncertainty and determination pervades the intricate, Goodwin-fronted collage of cinematic sound.

The bands drummer, vocalist and co-songwriter, Andy Williams says: “Looking at everyone’s lives over recent years, and considering the news at the moment, ‘Renegade’ feels a lot more loaded in retrospect. We wanted to go for a dystopian feel, thinking about Manchester itself over the next century or so. A totally imaginary thing… ‘Blade Runner’ set in our home city.”

Settling on the collective desire for a new album as soon as they closed the door on The Universal Want’s No.1 success, Renegade was the first to be written for Constellations Of The Lonely and the last to be written in their famed creative rural retreat, Frank Bough Sound III. Physically unanchored, waving off a totem of their shared past and facing personal mountains to climb, a new, intense, filmic, classic Doves album was carefully nurtured. Written, recorded, and produced in Greater Manchester, North Wales, and Cheshire and containing 10 brand new songs, the new LP is expected to be another incredible and epic chapter in Doves illustrious 25 year career.