PRE ORDER: 08\/09\/2023 Singular psych-folk-pop-rock wanderers, The Coral revel in a resurgent phase of artistic enquiry and announce that TWO albums will be released later this year at the same time as revealing their first new music since 2021 – WILD BIRD. Imagining the scorched sand, cardboard cowboys and flooded sets of a never-made Italian spaghetti western, the single snaps the clapperboard on a new story playing out all the way to the release of Sea Of Mirrors, the band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eleventh studio album \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcproper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on Fri 8 September 2023. After 2021\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s expansive Coral Island album landed the Number 2 spot on the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Official Album Chart and won unanimous critical praise, material for two, further albums occurred to the band. Amidst that songwriting scirroco, it was a script was written by keyboard player, Nick Power, and vintage cinema foyer poster artwork was created by drummer, Ian Skelly that confirmed Sea Of Mirrors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 vivid concept and the blueprint for The Coral to move beyond all expectations once again. The film\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s envisaged opening theme, Wild Bird\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s evocative sunlit shadows come laced with deft string arrangements courtesy of the album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s co-producer, Sean O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Hagan (The High Llamas, Stereolab) who was welcomed into The Coral fold as one of a number of guests and collaborators featured across Sea Of Mirrors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 13-tracks. Between the two albums, the band additionally count actors Cillian Murphy and John Simm, plus Love guitarist, Johnny Echols, as contributors. Former band member, Bill Ryder-Jones joins the songwriting credits for Sea Of Mirrors. The Sundowners are also amongst guests adding their voices to the album. James Skelly says of Wild Bird: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Like most of The Coral\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best known songs you could pick out, it was written in about five minutes. Once the album concept was clear, this was us imagining the theme tune for an Italian western directed by Fellini with a Richard Yates-written script. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s us asking ourselves: what would have happened if Lee Hazlewood had produced a Gene Pitney song written by Townes Van Zandt?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sea Of Mirrors and Holy Joe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Coral Island Medicine Show became the last albums to be recorded at Liverpool\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legendary Parr Street Studios, a long-term home to The Coral and numerous other bands from inside and outside the city prior to its closure last year. Opening sessions with O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Hagan in London, returning to Parr Street and, eventually, completing in final sessions at Skelly and producer, Chris Taylor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new recording facility, Kempston Street Studios, the album finds itself a part of music history for reasons beyond it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s place in The Coral\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extensive catalogue<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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