The Coral announce new album Sea Of Mirrors

The Coral have been back at Liverpool’s Parr Street Studios.

After creating their own world on Coral Island to much critical acclaim in 2021, The Coral have now built a spaghetti western on its follow-up Sea Of Mirrors, which has been set for release on September 8th.

Its opening scene is Wild Bird, of which James Skelly has said:

Like most of The Coral’s 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’s us asking ourselves: what would have happened if Lee Hazlewood had produced a Gene Pitney song written by Townes Van Zandt?

Also due in September is the limited run Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show, bringing The Great Muriarty back for a narrated post-script to that 2021 predecessor.

Guests across the two records include actors Cillian Murphy and John Simm, and Love guitarist Johnny Echols, while former member Bill Ryder-Jones is among the writing credits.

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