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Ever since Mark Sheridan’s I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside became a music hall staple in 1909, a thread of popular music, from folk through to David Essex, Morrissey and beyond, has been drawn to the kitsch glamour of English coastal towns. On their 10th album, The Coral give this tradition a distinct twist. Coral Island, a double record, recounts the faded glory of an imagined funfair isle. It’s a project in keeping with this enduringly impish group’s adventurous DNA. Hailing from the Wirral peninsula, The Coral’s music has often had something of the shore about it – their Mercury-nominated, self-titled 2002 debut was scattered with far-out sea shanties – while exploring ways to contort their vintage songwriting into weird and wonderful shapes. Songs about migraines, maggots and men who look like plants have been set to a genre-bending mix of acid folk, 60s psych, Merseybeat, stoner rock and spaghetti westerns.
The Wirral group s tenth studio album,
Coral Island, will feature 85-year-old Ian Murray (also known as The Great Muriarty) on guest vocals. The spiked apple has fallen squarely at the foot of the family tree in this latest chapter of
The Coral s story, with Mr Murray being the granddad of founding band members, James and Ian Skelly. Announcing back in January that they had completed their first ever double-album, to be released on Friday, April 30, the band alluded to a mysterious, unnamed special guest. The vividly themed, double album delves into the familiar neverworld of
Coral Island, soundtracking the spills of summer and the long shadows of tourist-free winters beside the seaside.