Rock revivalism is only half the story on this eponymous debut from psychedelic Wirral peninsula sextet The Coral. It’s hard to look beyond “Dreaming of You”—an absurdly catchy blast of kicking drums and rough-edged, lovesick harmonies—but there’s a strange unpredictability to this record’s most potent moments. From the frantic rum-swigging sea shanty that is “Skeleton Key” to the way “Simon Diamond” suddenly morphs from chanted pagan spookfest into slinky organ-driven groove, this is an album that gushes with a Mersey of ideas and nails the trick of sounding both timeless and newly minted.

Tracklisting

1. Spanish Main
2. I Remember When
3. Shadows Fall
4. Dreaming Of You
5. Simon Diamond
6. Goodbye
7. Waiting For The Heartaches
8. Skeleton Key
9. Wildfire
10. Badman
11. Calendars And Clocks
12. The Oldest Path
13. God Knows
14. Short Ballad
15. Flies
16. Dressed Like A Cow
17. Darkness
18. Sherrif John Brown
19. Good Fortune
20. Answer Me
21. Follow The Sun
22. Travelling Circus
23. Sweet Sue
24. Another Turn In The Lock
25. She’s The Girl For Me
26. Tumble Graves

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Spanish Main

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• I Remember When
• The Coral - Shadows Fall HQ
• The Coral - Dreaming Of You HQ
• Simon Diamond
• The Coral - Goodbye
• Waiting for the Heartaches
• The Coral - Skeleton Key Remastered Video 2002
• The Coral - Wildfire
• The Coral - Bad Man UTV
• Calendars and Clocks

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