THE CORAL return with 'Wild Bird' and TWO albums for 2023
Windows open into The Coral’s vivid cinematic and broadcast dreamworlds as they announce TWO 2023 albums with new single:
WILD BIRD
James Skelly says of Wild Bird: “Like most of The Coral’s best known songs you could pick out, it was written in about five minutes. Once the album concept was clear, this was us imagining the theme tune for an Italian western directed by Fellini with a Richard Yates-written script. It’s us asking ourselves: what would have happened if Lee Hazlewood had produced a Gene Pitney song written by Townes Van Zandt?”
Bridging Coral Island and Sea Of Mirrors, a second album titled Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show will also be released this September. With the full tracklisting limited to one-off pressings on physical vinyl, CD and cassette formats only, the album brings James and Ian Skelly’s grandad a.k.a The Great Muriarty back into the fold for the narrated post-script to one of The Coral’s most successful albums to date.