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
| Position | Title |
|---|---|
| A1 | Spanish Main |
| A2 | I Remember When |
| A3 | Shadows Fall |
| A4 | Dreaming Of You |
| A5 | Simon Diamond |
| A6 | Goodbye |
| B1 | Waiting For The Heartaches |
| B2 | Skeleton Key |
| B3 | Wildfire |
| B4 | Badman |
| B5 | Calendars And Clocks |
| C1 | The Oldest Path |
| C2 | God Knows |
| C3 | Short Ballad |
| C4 | Flies |
| C5 | Dressed Like A Cow |
| C6 | Darkness |
| C7 | Sherrif John Brown |
| D1 | Good Fortune |
| D2 | Answer Me |
| D3 | Follow The Sun |
| D4 | Travelling Circus |
| D5 | Sweet Sue |
| D6 | Another Turn In The Lock |
| D7 | She’s The Girl For Me |
| D8 | Tumble Graves |
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Release Information
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coral_Sea_(album) |
| Format | 1× Vinyl (White) LP, Album, Repress, Stereo |
| Label | Run on Records |
| Catalog Number | RO-002-LP |
| Notes | 20th Anniversary Edition. Sticker on sleeve. Included printed colour inner sleeves and artwork booklet with original album lyrics. Pressed on opaque white double heavyweight vinyl. Some copies were sold with a signed print. Remastered from the original mixes. This reissue includes two, unreleased, never-before-heard-tracks, She’s The Girl For Me and Tumble Graves, produced by Ian Broudie, but shelved after the 2001 album sessions. The rarities appear on a complete singles B-sides collection and the band’s pre-album EP The Oldest Path. ℗ 2022 Deltasonic Records © 2022 Run On Records/ Modern Sky www.thecoral.co.uk |
| Discogs URL | The Coral - The Coral |