2023-10-26 11:25:02
After the creative, critically acclaimed success of Coral Island became The Coral invited to be the last band in the Parr Street Studios before the Liverpool residence finally closed its doors. The result was material for two albums: Sea of Mirrors and Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show.
The only physically published, one-time edition Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show wants to act as a bridge between Coral Island and the official successor Sea of Mirrors be understood, for which James and Ian Skelly use their grandfather as the narrator The Great Muriarty bring back, whose charismatic voice (seven of a total of 18 tracks represent radio presentations) is also included Drifter’s Prayer a spoken word piece regarding the cowboy pirates) runs as a common thread through the 30 minutes of the record: “Framed within a midnight radio show broadcast from a Michelin blimp hovering somewhere above the piers of Coral Island, “Holy Joe…” is a love letter to the tradition of the death disc and the murder ballad, from Stack-o-Lee to Skeleton Key and everything in between.“
With one foot in a romanticized fog of the past and one in the coast over the prairie, the symbiosis is from the mood of Coral Island and the western ambience of Sea of Mirrors not quite as good as the first work (the overall flow is less productive and the rhythm work isn’t variable enough), but noticeably better than the second (because the basic level of the material is higher, and the melodies and hooks simply stick more easily ).
On Holy Joe (Hitchhiker at the Highway’s Edge) provides a subtle Tex Mex swing that sounds roughly as if it had Calexico recorded a song in the 60s that Tarantino might use for a road movie through the desert, for an instant favorite – even if it shows little persistence beyond its playing time. The casually catchy, soaring hook is more succinct Affiliation. The comfortably plucked miniature Hotel symptomatic with a vague country affinity, the catchy tune Leave this Town you are in the orbit of psychedelics, and Never Be in Love Like That Again flirts with folk as a wonderfully lovable gem on the guitar.
Long Drive to the City is a pleasantly bittersweet duet and Down By the Riverside sways in a relaxed gallop, meanwhile Baby Face Nelson Rehearse the uncomplicated fun of proto-Beatles for a casual 90 seconds The Coral Island Killer This counteracts this as a melancholic introspective damn catchy. That Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show then loses the balance between songwriting and storytelling a little in the last third, it doesn’t matter: more than for Sea of Mirrrors applies that the enthusiasm depends on the output of The Coral may have been limited for over a decade, but the band remains simply incapable of actually disappointing. (For which rounding up between the points should then be permitted in terms of scoring.)
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