The Invisible Invasion

Coral - The Invisible Invasion

The Invisible Invasion
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Artist: Coral
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-08-30
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. She Sings The Mourning
  2. Cripples Crown
  3. So Long Ago
  4. The Operator
  5. A Warning To The Curious
  6. In The Morning
  7. Something Inside Of Me
  8. Come Home
  9. Far From The Crowd
  10. Leaving Today
  11. Arabian Sand
  12. Late Afternoon

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Free Music Review: The Coral Improves On Success
Hit: 5 Stars

Invisible Invasion has the immediacy of the Coral's first album with the maturing song writing of Magic And Medicine.

The music is a hybrid of 60's/80's psychedelic rock and present day art rock. Each song has a sharpness and character to it that makes it fun to listen to more and more.

I don't know how this band hasn't taken off more in the US.

The Operator? That song is as crunchy as anything that the Queens of Stoneage have done. Just about all the songs are awesome- but that song grabs me the most.

I agree with another reviewer that Egyptian Sand isn't up to par with the rest of the album- mainly because it sounds exactly like a mix of songs Syd Barrett wrote on Pink Floyds first album.

Also I like how this album mixes a good amount of pop tunes with more aggressive/progressive songs. That was one thing that disappointed me about my initial listenings to Magic And Medicine; it felt pastoral and slightly poppy. Were as the debut album was nothing but emotional highs and fun wacky tunes. It would have been dissapointing in the long run if they would have made a part ii to their debut. They were what, 19 when they made that album? I like that they keep extending themselves.

Invisible Invasion shows a band that is refining their expression of sound.

ps
The e.p., Nightfreak & The Sons Of Becker, was a sign of the transition the Coral was making towards this album, but Medicine Magic already felt transitional- so it seemed mostly like a set of b-sides. Although Grey Harpoon is a personal favorite.

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Work on the Coral's The Invisible Invasion began back at the start of 2004. It's produced by Adrian Utley and Geoff Barrow(Portishead). The band hired a house in the Lake District for two weeks and rehearsed the 18 possible songs for the album, tweaking and developing them there, before they were ready to set them to acetate. The first single to be taken from the album is entitled 'In The Morning'. Sony. 2005
On their fourth outing, the Coral are anything but obvious or heavy-handed. On the contrary, delicacy and understatement define the British septet?s latest. The 1960s shake hands with the 1980s in their wistful pop, yet they never--or very rarely, at any rate--come across as a retro act. At their best, they sound like Madness circa "Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)" (must be that organ) or Echo & the Bunnymen circa "Lips Like Sugar" (James Skelly could be Ian McCulloch?s little brother). With its chugging, train-like rhythm and haunting chorus, "She Sings the Mourning" sounds like the theme to a lost Tom Courtenay film, while the enchanting "So Long Ago" evokes Sondre Lerche's gentle folk-pop. Then there are others, like the perfectly pleasant "Leaving Today" and "Come Home," where the Coral almost cross that fine line dividing tasteful from dull, but there are no real duds on The Invisible Invasion. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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