She Walks in Beauty
This album features an ageing pop star reciting a selection of her favourite 19th century poems – Byron, Shelley, Keats – while her muso mates conjure an “ambient odyssey” in the background. That might sound like a “bum-clenchingly awful vanity project”, said Helen Brown in The Independent – but when the pop star is the “formidable” Marianne Faithfull and her pals are Warren Ellis, Nick Cave and Brian Eno, you know you’re in for something good. Faithfull makes these “200-year-old visions of beauty, love and death feel as urgent as the latest true-crime podcast”. And the backing – a misty soundscape of waves, birdsong, electronica, street sounds, piano and cello – turns the album into an “unsentimental spine-tingler”.
Rating:
The Coral: Coral Island (Modern Sky)
Rating:
Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis: She Walks In Beauty (BMG)
Rating:
Verdict: Haunting Romantic poetry
Just five months later, guitarist Green passed away in his sleep at 73, leaving a legacy now being celebrated afresh on an album taken from that gig
When Mick Fleetwood put together an all-star line-up to pay tribute to his former bandmate Peter Green, he was probably anticipating an emotional evening.
What the veteran drummer couldn’t have foreseen was just how poignant that London concert on February 25 last year would turn out to be. Within weeks of the show at the Palladium, the UK had gone into lockdown.
Album: The Coral - Coral Island | reviews, news & interviews Album: The Coral - Coral Island
Album: The Coral - Coral Island
Merseyside veterans faded fairground concept is steeped in pop craft
by Nick HastedSaturday, 24 April 2021
Merseyside rock’s taste for glowing lysergic locales defines The Coral’s tenth LP,
Coral Island, a double concept album which makes them the house band in a seedy fairground full of sepia memories and sawdust spirits.
Merseyside rock’s taste for glowing lysergic locales defines The Coral’s tenth LP,
Coral Island, a double concept album which makes them the house band in a seedy fairground full of sepia memories and sawdust spirits. Put this Island on the map with the acid-blot evocations of The Beatles’ concept single “Penny Lane”/“Strawberry Fields Forever”, and “Villiers Terrace”, the 1980 address where Echo & the Bunnymen first found the hot glow of youthful imagination and excess.
The Coral: ‘People are tricked into believing that tiny thing called the mainstream is everything’
Michael Hann talks to the band who shot to fame in the Noughties about their glorious new album, why there’s only space for one or two groups in the mainstream, and how once you turn your back on that type of fame, you can’t really get it back
Sunday 25 April 2021 07:50
The Coral chose not to knock Ariana Grande off the top of the charts
Keyboardist Nick Power spoke to the ECHO about the band s upcoming 10th studio album, Coral Island
Wirral Indie legends The Coral are set to release their 10th studio album, Coral Island, on Friday, April 30. (Image: The Coral/Rob Allen (Perspective))
The weekend is here but the news never stops - get our newsletter todayInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later.
Sign up now
When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice.