S.Lo on March 19th, 2018

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After reuniting for live shows two years ago, ’90s alt-rock faves Belly are ready to share their third album. “Dove,” the quartet’s first full-length since 1995’s “King” arrives May 4.

After 23 years, frontwoman Tanya Donelly (co-founder of early indie heroes Throwing Muses and the Breeders) said, “We had just gotten to the point where we were just missing each other, and missing the music … I missed that sense of having a band.” 

Modern technology helped make it all possible after the four members — Donelly, Tom Gorman (guitar), Chris Gorman (drums) and Gail Greenwood (bass) — scattered to disparate areas of the Northeast. Tom Gorman and longtime friend of the group Paul Q. Kolderie (Hole, Throwing Muses, Radiohead) brought all the elements together as producers of the album. Said Donelly, “It required a lot of trust because we were sending raw snippets to each other — anything from 30-second pieces to full songs. Tom and Gail and I would send demos back and forth, and then Chris would add drums to whatever snippets he’d heard, and Tom would sew everything together. It would sometimes be a very circuitous route to a song, but it was really fun.”  

Their first single for “Dove” is “Shiny One,” a driving rocker with a timeless message, “Don’t forget where you come from, son / Don’t imagine you don’t know me …”

The psychedelic video, almost a morphed revisiting of the video for their first hit, “Feed the Tree” off their first album, “Star,” was shot and edited by Gorman and Jack McKenna. “Together we arrived at an Andy Warhol layered silkscreen look that really seemed to match the hallucinogenic vibe and retro groove of the song.  I have to give a ton of credit to Jack for pulling it all together,” said Gorman.   

The self-released album is now available for preorder.

||| Watch: The video for “Shiny One”

 

||| Live: Belly will play at the Teragram Ballroom on Aug. 8 (tickets) and Aug. 9 (tickets).