0104. The Coral
The Coral
The Coral's self-titled (yes, I got tired of writing "eponymous") debut is a return to an age around when the lads' parents were born. The band's clearly listened to their predecessors on the british music scene like The Small Faces and The Kinks and put those influences to good use (for you Swedes reading this: they sound like a good version of Mando Diao).
Songs like Simon Diamond and the massive hit Dreaming Of You could (among others) be lifted straight from a Greatest Hits of the 60's-compilation and if you've never heard the latter I got wonder where you were back in '02-'03.
They move effortlessly from mellow harmonies to seemingly unstructured randomness and while Skeleton Key sees the band at their most inaccessible and chaotic it's still an interesting song.
Ah, it's always nice with a touch of psychedelia.
