The Coral announce 'The Singles Collection' album

The Coral have announced the release of 'The Singles Collection' on 15th September 2008, preceded by a brand new track, ‘Being Somebody Else’, on 8th September, available in limited quantities on 7” and through digital download.

'The Singles Collection' tracklisting:
Dreaming Of You
In The Morning
Pass It On
Don’t Think You’re The First
Jacqueline
Secret Kiss
Goodbye
Shadows Fall
Liezah
Who’s Gonna Find Me
Bill McCai
Put The Sun Back
Something Inside Of Me Being Somebody Else

Pre-order the album now.

In July 2002, NME heralded ‘the funniest, most refreshing British debut in years’ in their review of The Coral’s eponymous debut album, a record that would go on to pierce the UK Top 5 and earn the band their first platinum album. In 2007, the same title announced that The Coral had ‘become the classic band they’ve sometimes promised to be’ in their review of current studio album, ‘Roots and Echoes’. Six years and four studio albums into their career it speaks volumes that the band that really restarted the British guitar sound in the early noughties continue to gain praise from all quarters.

The heart of The Coral has always been the tension between the classic songwriting that runs through their veins and produced such singles as ‘Pass It On’, ‘Jacqueline’, ‘Dreaming Of You’ and ‘Bill McCai’ and the experimentalism that was first spotted on debut EP ‘Shadows Fall’ and led through to ‘Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker’ – a mini album recorded in one session over ten days, to the sea shanty of ‘Remember Me’ on ‘Roots and Echoes’. The Coral are a rarity in music, a band that make tunes that appeal to everyman whilst producing those tunes in such a way and with such understanding of their medium that critics are minded to say ‘James Skelly is one of the finest writers, and voices, in British music today’ (Q).

A band that over four studio albums and one unscripted B sides and rarities compilation have notched up five Top Ten albums (including a Number One for second album ‘Magic and Medicine’), numerous hit singles, fans from Noel Gallagher to Alex Turner and are still all in their twenties now release a Singles Collection that, should it be needed, once again demonstrates the strength of their songwriting and their ability to make the simple sound divine and the complex understandable. The twelve tracks on ‘The Singles Collection’ should be seen as a catch up for those unfortunate enough to not have a Coral album in their home and a perfect dozen of great modern pop songwriting at its best for the rest of us.