★★★★★
Wirral space cowboys The Coral are currently on one of those extended hiatuses, so it's a neat trick to pull a 'new' album out of the can to keep the embers glowing. Recorded between 2005's 'The Invisible Invasion' and 2007's 'Roots & Echoes', 'The Curse Of Love' is a neat record, filled with the mystic folk and lithe psychedelia that made them so refreshing back in the day...
- www.nme.com
2014-10-21
★★★★★
Sound: This is The Coral's debut album, a young (at the time of release) band hailing from Liverpool. It's hard to pigeon-hole the Coral under a certain genre, since there are so many going on in the album from hypnotic sea shanties (Shadows Fall) to pure pop (Dreaming Of You). // 9 Lyrics and Singing: I love the lyrics on this album, it's not clear what a lot of the songs are about but those are the best types of lyrics...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
If, as has been observed, one of the UK's primary exports is pop music, Liverpool has certainly functioned as one of its main hubs of extraction. The self-evidence of the Beatles and their Scouse contemporaries being the vanguard of the '60s British Invasion. Echo and the Bunnymen, Teardrop Explodes, Pete Wylie and others forming Merseyside's contribution to the new wave of the '70s. At the turn of the '90s, we had the La's and their brilliant if fatally indolent frontman, Lee Mavers...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
"We'd like to make records like Neil Young makes records," The Coral's multi-instrumentalist Nick Power told this writer. "To put albums out when we want to and not care about fashion or trends, then do the next album in exactly the same way." The Coral, it could be argued, have been doing that since Day One...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
Having spent six months with Butterfly House, it has grown steadily into my favourite Coral album...
- www.mojo4music.com
2010-12-20
★★★★★
"The Invisible Invasion" makes it perfectly clear, yet again, why many are hailing The Coral as one of the best young bands on either side of the Atlantic. This fourth album from the acclaimed British group is another dreamy mix that strongly recalls the later days of The Doors. The pertinent question, however, is whether it is enough to elevate the seven-piece group from buzz-bin status to commercial success in the United States...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
The Coral is a six-piece from Hoylake, England. And judging from the 12 tracks on the band's second stateside release, "Magic and Medicine," these guys--ages 19 to 22--are clearly in awe of their parents' record collections. Legends like The Zombies and The Doors inform the group's sound. Yep, several tracks here feature an organ and a sexy baritone lead vocal, courtesy of James Skelly. Like so much psychedelic pop, "Magic and Medicine" is about a feeling and a vibe...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
It becomes clear about halfway through the title track of this album that The Coral are back to their best. Their second album 'Magic and Medicine' was generally praised by the indie press, but not so much by the hardcore fans, who fell in love with their pirate antics and fast paced rhythms of their eponymous debut...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-23
★★★★★
This is some happily dippily shit here boys and babes, some flowery powery Brit rock that comes in somewhere between fat/drunk Jim Morrison, The Specials (on a bad day) and Jesus Christ Superstar. Elements of ska - bright, offbeat guitar, keys and brass - appear and disappear as though trapped in the writing and desperate to find a way out...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
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