Roots & Echoes [Import]

The Coral | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 13, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Deltasonic / Sbme
• ASIN: B000RXYU60
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,394 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.co.uk Review

Roots & Echoes marks something of a change of scenery for The Coral. Not so long ago, it was all lepers, sea shanties, and lonely suicides round their ends, but this-–the follow-up to 2005’s The Invisible Invasion--tells quite a different tale. Recorded at Oasis’ home studio in Buckinghamshire at the personal request of the Brothers Gallagher, this record captures the band casting out much of the bad vibes and concentrating on making a warm, vintage-sounding record with classic appeal. Of course, they can’t help throwing in the odd spot of heart-in-mouth high tragedy-–"Remember Me", a fraught tale of a very one-sided love affair, concludes with a howl of guitar and a final spasm of drums as vocalist James Skelly discovers the girl he carries a torch for has a ring on her finger. Elsewhere, though, there’s beautifully recorded excursions into classic soul ("Put The Sun Back"), acoustic-tinged bossa nova ("Not So Lonely"), and Doors-like organ jams ("She’s Got a Reason") which prove, as if there were any doubt, that this band have chops beyond the ability to bash out a ragged sea shanty or two. It is, in short, the sound of a more mature Coral, and while there are surely some fans who’ll choose now to jump ship, disappointed at the lack of piratical adventure, all in all it’ll be their loss. –-Louis Pattison

Product Description

2007 album the eccentric Britpoppers. The album was recorded at Oasis EWheeler End Studios and produced by Craig Silvey (The Magic Numbers) during the opening months of 2007 and mixed in London throughout April. The Coral are one of the UK's most successful bands with eight Top 40 singles since their debut in 2001 The Coral find themselves as the possessors of four Top 5 albums at an age when many bands are still breaking through. Lead singer, James Skelly is the oldest member at just 26. The influence of The Coral on a generation of bands is hard to overstate, they returned the art of British Pop song writing to the charts and gathered influential fans along the way. One being Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys who has invited the band to support them on their European tour this summer and Lancashire County Cricket Ground shows. Columbia.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Their best yet!, February 1, 2008

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Nse Ette (Lagos, Nigeria) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roots & Echoes (Audio CD)

I've been a fan of UK indie rockers The Coral, since their eponymous debut. "Roots and echoes" is their fourth studio CD (fifth, if you count 2003's "Nightfreaks and the sons of Becker"), and I must say, it's their best CD yet!

Their sound has always been a mix of folk, sixties psychedelia and pop, and this is no different. Every song is brilliant; "Who's gonna find me" and the melodic "Jaqueline" (both bouncy, songs with a Motown feel), "Remember me" (jangly guitars, bouncy beat, and creepy effects), the similar "In the rain", the country tinged trio of "Put the sun back", and the bouncier "Cobwebs" and "Music at night" are the more upbeat songs.

For ballads, we get the aptly titled "Fireflies" which is such a lovely psychedelic sounding ballad. "Not so lonely" is an acoustic, sixties sounding ballad with an aching vocal delivery. Similar is the slightly more upbeat "Rebecca you", and the lovely "She's got a reason".

Great!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A+ for "The Coral", September 2, 2007

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Tanis "Tanis Yvonne Somerville" (Seahurst, Washington) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roots & Echoes (Audio CD)

This fourth album from the Liverpool septet is their most accomplished yet. It's confident and self-assured and the ramshackle sea-shanty element found on previous albums is gone. It feels like 1967, not 2007. Put The Sun Back is full of nostalgia and frontman James Skelly hits the right notes with his Roy Orbison-like croon on Not So Lonely.
Jacqueline is a super pop tune and Cobwebs is a light-hearted and country-esque. There are darker elements too, on In The Rain, in which James Skelly says he's, "a stranger in this life/haunted by yesterday's desires".
It's a warm, engaging album tinged with just the right amount of roughness.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Polished and a proper progression, August 26, 2007

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Jim Benny "silentsighs" (drifter, somewhere in US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roots & Echoes (Audio CD)

Original as always. Not a single weak spot on the record. Not the music it self but this album reminds me of how Doves capture their fans.. The first few listens almost leave you wanting and expecting more. But the more you listen to it the better it sounds and the more you appreciate the beauty of their craft. The only negatives are the fact that most of the songs are 3:30 minute songs without much tempo changes... Personally I think it blends together the beginning Coral and the new sound perfectly. Which in turn should invite a new fan base and please the already. I have 4,000 plus songs on my computer and find it very difficult to find a band as unique and identifiable as The Coral in today's hipster/scenester madness music craze. Groups like Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, Interpol, et cetera will be around for less than a decade and I think most music fans are finding their stuff to be tired and played out already after only a few years. The Coral will be around for some time churning out timeless music.