2025 press. Mirroring the original vinyl version, this pressing includes the track ‘Simian Technology’ at the end of side B.
The debut that started it all - The Coral still sounds like nothing else. A mad mix of sea-shanty psychedelia, spaghetti western riffs, and jangly Merseybeat gone slightly feral. It’s youthful, chaotic, and full of charm, the sound of a band throwing every idea at the wall and somehow making it all stick. Twenty psychedelic rock, indie pop, Merseybeat revival, garage psychplus years later, it’s still an absolute cult classic and one of the most original British debuts of the 2000s.
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