The Coral Sea of Mirrors Ltd Ed (500) Tricolour Vinyl + Flexi Disc New/Sealed
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on September 8th 2023.The Coral "Sea Of Mirrors" Modern Sky UK – M9497UKRT Limited Edition (of 500), Tricolour Marble Vinyl, LP, housed in a gate-fold sleeve and released, with 7", 33 ⅓ RPM, Single Sided, Blue Flexi-disc, The LP and the Flexi Disc are still sealed and have never been played, so both are in mint condition.
The Coral are an English rock band, formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside. The band emerged during the early 2000s. In 2008, after guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones left the band, they continued as a five-piece. Despite the "guitar group revival" tag, they had little in common with their peers. Their music was a hybrid of psychedelia, dub reggae, Merseybeat and country, and their lyrics betrayed an obsession with the sea.
The band's music is a mixture of 1960s-style psychedelia and folk-rock with old-fashioned country and modern indie rock influences.
"Sea of Mirrors" is the Coral's eleventh studio album. It was released on 8 September 2023 through Run On and Modern Sky. The album was produced by Sean O'Hagan and features guest appearances by former member Bill Ryder-Jones, Cilian Murphy, John Simm and Love guitarist Johnny Echols.
Following the critical success of their 2021 double album Coral Island, the band was invited to record at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool for a final time before it was sold. By the time it was being closed, they realised that they had created material worth of two different albums, thematically. While one of them was "telling a story", the other felt more "dream-like", akin to a "stream-of-consciousness" type of writing. As a result, Sea of Mirrors is set to be released alongside another studio album titled Holy Joe's Coral Island Medicine, which will only be released physically, not digitally. The band announced both releases on 24 May 2023. The Coral thought of Sea of Mirrors as a "kind of imaginary soundtrack to a 'lost' Spaghetti Western", citing the late composer Ennio Morricone as a main influence. The sound was described as Country rock through a "psychedelic lens". In addition, the vibe of the record gives off "a sun-baked Morricone-esque flair" combined with the band's "signature merseyside sound". Sea of Mirrors is seen as an attempt at crafting their own "surreal gun-slinging soundtrack".
Sea of Mirrors received a score of 81 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on five critics' reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reception. Uncut wrote that it "confirm[s] the band's Merseyside-'67 LA space-time portal, retracing familiar if melodically firm ground".
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