THE CORAL SHARE NEW ALBUM ‘SEA OF MIRRORS’

THE CORAL SHARE NEW ALBUM ‘SEA OF MIRRORS’

THE CORAL

SHARE NEW ALBUM

SEA OF MIRRORS

FEATURING LAMENTING NEW SINGLE
‘FARAWAY WORLDS’

 

PLUS Oppenheimer actor, Cillian Murphy provided a dramatic touch to the album’s closer, ‘Oceans Apart‘.

Album out now via Modern Sky / Virgin Music Australia


Flipping the dusty fallboard up on the saloon bar piano to stir deep pools of longing and regret, while sensing hope of salvation by making good their escape, The Coral recently released the twilight requiem of ‘Faraway Worlds’, the final track lifted from their new album, Sea Of Mirrors, out now (released Friday 8 September) on via Modern Sky.

 

On the same day, the band will release the single-pressing, physical formats-only Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show, completing a characteristically unorthodox, summer-long voyage to both their 11th and 12th long-players.

 

Turning the cracked glamour of weary and lost fallen idols of film to face the doldrum-documentarians of 20th Century cinematic songwriting, founder member, songwriter and singer, James Skelly has previously described Sea Of Mirrors as the imagined soundtrack to “an Italian western directed by Fellini with a Richard Yates-written script” while namechecking Lee Hazlewood’s 1970 TV soundtrack, A Cowboy In Sweden, as one in a range of influential catalysts.
 

 

Yet, ‘Faraway Worlds’the fourth song fans are able to hear in advance of Sea Of Mirror’s anticipated release, following previews including ‘Wild Bird‘ and ‘That’s Where She Belongs, celebrates the power of imagination to fill voids of obvious inspiration. Looking back to the innocent wandering of brothers, James and the band’s drummer, Ian Skelly’s minds as children, the tapestry of weary bar room piano, slide guitar, flute and rich vocal harmonies forms a dusky, late-running highlight from the score to a film that has only existed, and can only ever exist, in the singular, creative world of The Coral.  

 

 

 

 

 

James Skelly says of the track: “Ian and I wrote this one together. We were trying to capture the feeling of when we were kids, creating our own worlds. Lyrically, it’s inspired by Dylan Thomas, musically by John Martyn and the more pastoral side of Pink Floyd.”

 

The last albums to be recorded at Liverpool’s now lost, yet legendary studio complex, Parr Street, both Sea Of Mirrors and Holy Joe… were made to shine by the abundant virtues of collaboration. While welcoming The High Llamas and Stereolab’s Sean O’Hagan on board as co-producer for Sea Of Mirrors, detailing the album with string arrangements and challenging the band with quality-controlling critique, the band also welcomed Oppenheimer actor, Cillian Murphy to provide the finishing, dramatic touches to album closer, ‘Oceans Apart‘.

 

Found to sit perfectly in the gap between the world created by their universally-acclaimed 2021 double album, Coral Island and the flooded set and soaked cardboard cowboys of Sea Of Mirrors’ doomed film set story, Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show’s broken radio broadcast, providing a further 17 tracks, is narrated once again by the Skelly’s grandfather, The Great Muriarty. Looking another step beyond the band for finishing touches, Holy Joe… features the previously released ‘Drifter’s Prayer‘ narrated by Dr Who and Life On Mars actor, John Simm.

 

Sea Of Mirrors will be more released this week on multiple, limited-edition and standard vinyl formats as well as CD, cassette and digital, while Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show will only be available to fans and collectors on single-pressing physical vinyl, CD and cassette.

 

The Coral’s first appeared to the music loving public in the early 00’s via legendary Liverpool indie, Deltasonic and delivered a run of radio hit singles throughout that fertile decade, including Dreaming Of You (now on over 100 million streams globally and securing UK Platinum status), Pass It On, Don’t Think You’re The First and In The Morning. Six of their previous albums have reached the Top 10 including Coral Island and 2003’s No.1 chart success, Magic and Medicine, which saw the band nominated for Best Group at the Brit Awards.

 

The Coral are James Skelly, Ian Skelly, Nick Power, Paul Duffy and Paul Molloy.


 

The Coral – Sea of Mirrors
Album out now via Modern Sky / Virgin Music Australia

 

 

Sea Of Mirrors tracklist
1. The Actor and the Cardboard Cowboy
2. Cycles of the Seasons
3. Faraway Worlds
4. Wild Bird
5. North Wind
6. Eleanor
7. Sea of Mirrors
8. That’s Where She Belongs
9. The Way You Are
10. Dream River
11. Almeria
12. Child of the Moon
13. Oceans Apart


 

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PARCELS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM LIVE VOL. 2 12 TRACKS INCLUDING 5 BRAND NEW SONGS ALL RECORDED LIVE BY THE BAND IN A CLUB IN PARIS

PARCELS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM LIVE VOL. 2  12 TRACKS INCLUDING 5 BRAND NEW SONGS ALL RECORDED LIVE BY THE BAND IN A CLUB IN PARIS

PARCELS

ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM
LIVE VOL. 2

12 TRACKS INCLUDING 5 BRAND NEW SONGS ALL RECORDED
LIVE BY THE BAND IN A CLUB IN PARIS


Parcels have announced they will release their new album Live Vol. 2 on 20th October via Because Music / Virgin Music Australia. It will be available digitally and on 180gsm double vinyl. Their new single and accompanying video ‘Reflex – from Le Palace, Paris’, taken from the forthcoming album, are out now.

 

Live Vol. 2 consists of twelve tracks, all recorded live by the band at a secret gig in Paris last year. The album includes 5 brand new & unreleased songs and follows on from Parcels’ previous live album, Live Vol. 1, released in 2020 and a fan favourite for its display of the band’s distinguished musicianship and one-take performance.

 

But Live Vol. 2 sees the 5-piece – from Australia but based in Berlin – explore a new, club inspired direction and sound, first trialed at their live shows last year. Patrick Hetherington of the band explains:

 

“I think a lot of things lead up to us making this record. Maybe we finally allowed ourselves to musically reflect our years in Berlin, moments in dark nightclubs flying high. We wanted to transport people into the club with us. Into the tense, faceless, euphoric world that can present itself in the right environment with the right repetition of the right chords and rhythms. Transcendence. When people stop thinking and just feel, just move. That deep escape.

 

Beforehand we had many months touring the world, playing festivals and headline shows. Trying to make a crowd move. We felt a pull towards dance music so we started to sneak more of these long repetitious tangents into our set. On the last tour in Europe half of the set was a rave and the other half was the more traditional songs. We didn’t feel like we could go much further with it at our concerts though, especially the bigger ones. It was already divisive amongst our fans and for this dance stuff to work we really needed the whole crowd to take the trip with us and to let go. So we figured for ‘Live Vol. 2’, why not go all the way there! Here was an opportunity to rent a small club, to take away the name Parcels, and all the expectations that come with it, and just have a hot room full of people dancing. The previous year on the road was like training, learning to enter these long semi-improvised dance sections, learning how to communicate with each other and how to keep a crowd on their toes. Every night we honed in closer on new, rearranged versions of Parcels songs. ‘Live Vol. 2’ was where we would really let loose and drive it home. We would play for 2 hours, just dance music. And it was an experiment, a risk, because we’d never done it so purely before.”

 

‘Reflex – from Le Palace, Paris’, taken from Live Vol. 2, is out now and is the first single from the album. Of the single, Jules Crommelin says:

 

“We seem to like shifting our songs in drastic ways, turning them upside down and back to front, and for Reflex that meant changing a ballad into a fast euphoric trance dance track. It was a lot of fun to play that night, I remember the feeling.. the building energy in the evening.”

 

 

 

 

Originally formed in Byron Bay, Australia back in 2014, Parcels are presently based in Berlin, Germany and the band’s line-up is keyboardist Louie Swain, keyboardist/guitarist Patrick Hetherington, bassist Noah Hill, drummer Anatole “Toto” Serret, and guitarist Jules Crommelin.

 

The band released their debut, self-titled album in 2018 to widespread critical acclaim, with NME dubbing it “cheeky, timeless and devilishly catchy” in their 5-star review. Parcels’ second studio album Day/Night is an ambitious record made up of two self contained albums. The record was praised by the likes of Rolling Stone UK: “a brilliantly accomplished, genre-spanning record” and Gigwise who proclaimed it “a career-defining record”.

 

 

Parcels are a formidable unit as a live band, and completed their biggest tour to date last year, performing a 6-stop sold-out Australian tour performing at Enmore Theatre (Sydney), The Tivoli (Brisbane), and The Forum (Melbourne) with The Music stating “the Byron five’s scintillating synchronicity wowed beyond expectation”. Internationally, they also performed to sold out headline shows and festivals across the globe including Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and New York’s SummerStage in Central Park. The band’s most recent shows in the UK were hailed “a dextrous show of live prowess” in NME’s 5-star review of their Islington Academy Show, adding: “you simply have to see this band live.” All this is evident in Live Vol. 2, the new album by Parcels – out 20th October via Because Music / Virgin Music Australia. New single ‘Reflex – from Le Palace, Paris’ is out now.

 

 

 

 

‘Live Vol. 2’ track listing…

SIDE A:
1. Shadow – from Le Palace, Paris
2. LordHennessy – from Le Palace, Paris
3. Ascend – from Le Palace, Paris
4. Recast – from Le Palace, Paris

SIDE B:
1. Reflex – from Le Palace, Paris
2. Iknowhowyoufeel – from Le Palace, Paris
3. Gamesofluck – from Le Palace, Paris

SIDE C:
1. Thefear – from Le Palace, Paris
2. Transcend – from Le Palace, Paris

SIDE D:
1. Entrance – from Le Palace, Paris
2. Lightenup – from Le Palace, Paris
3. React – from Le Palace, Paris


 

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TRIPPIE REDD RELEASES HIS HIGHLY ANTICIPATED ALBUM A LOVE LETTER TO YOU 5

TRIPPIE REDD RELEASES HIS HIGHLY ANTICIPATED ALBUM A LOVE LETTER TO YOU 5

TRIPPIE REDD

RELEASES HIS HIGHLY ANTICIPATED ALBUM

A LOVE LETTER TO YOU 5

out now via 10K Projects / Virgin Music Australia

 

+ SHARES NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR
‘HELICOPTER’ FT. TOMMY LEE SPARTA


 

Amassing over 30 billion streams to date, multi-platinum hip-hop heavyweight, Trippie Redd releases his highly anticipated album A Love Letter To You 5 via 10K Projects / Virgin Music Australia. Accompanying the project he shared the official video for ‘Helicopter‘ featuring Tommy Lee Sparta.

 

 

With 19 captivating tracks, A Love Letter To You 5 arrives after lead-in singles ‘Took My Breath Away,’ ‘Last Days‘ and ‘Left 4 Dead‘ introduced listeners to the smooth hip-hop flows backed by iconic samples that consume the entire body of work. Named one of Spotify’s ‘Top 50 Most Streamed Rappers,’ Trippie Redd tapped other hip-hop powerhouses like Roddy Ricch, Bryson Tiller, Kid Laroi and the legendary Lil Wayne to lend their verses on the rapper’s most classic and versatile work yet. The series that started it all back in 2017, A Love Letter To You has become a core centrepiece of Trippie’s catalogue, highlighting themes of love and relationships, with four previous iterations released in the last six years.

 

 

 

 

 

Earlier this year, Trippie released his surprise mixtape Mansion Musik, featuring the likes of Travis Scott, Future, Chief Keef and JuiceWRLD. The fan-focused drop zoomed up the charts instantly, coming in at #1 on Billboard’s Rap Albums Chart and #2 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart. It also debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart marking Trippie’s seventh consecutive Top 5 debut on the list. Additionally, the project saw 7 songs debut on the US Spotify Chart bringing Trippie’s total career entries to 143 songs – the 6th most of any artist.

 

 

 


 

ABOUT TRIPPIE REDD:
One of the most versatile and creatively daring artists in hip-hop today, Trippie Redd makes music that’s both wildly experimental and massively appealing. Since delivering his debut mixtape A Love Letter to You in 2017, the multi-platinum-selling, chart-topping rapper, singer/songwriter has continually defied genre boundaries, embedding his melodic take on rap with frenetic elements of rock-and-roll and heavy metal. And with his penetrating lyrics and nuanced but hard-hitting vocal performance, the 24-year-old Ohio native matches that endless ingenuity with a powerfully raw emotional impact.

 

Racking up over 30 billion streams to date and having seven consecutive projects land in the Top 5 of the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, Trippie Redd has evolved from budding Soundcloud rapper to a global powerhouse. Not only has he collaborated with some of today’s biggest names in music including Drake, Future, Travis Scott, XXXTENTACION, Juice WRLD, Travis Barker, Illenium, Marshmello and more, but he also made his acting debut during an episode of Lil Dicky’s critically acclaimed DAVE followed by an appearance on Machine Gun Kelly’s Good Mourning.

 

 

His 2021 album, Trip At Knight featuring single ‘Miss The Rage’ featuring Playboi Carti, brought a #1 debut on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and went on to amass over 3 billion streams, while his Mansion Musik mixtape followed, earlier this year, landing a #1 debut on the same chart. Named one of the ‘Top 50 Most Streamed Rappers on Spotify,’ Trippie Redd plans to continue to break boundaries and cement his status as one of the best in the game.

 

 

 

 


 

 

A Love Letter To You 5 Tracklisting
1. Take Me Away (feat. Corbin)
2. Last Days
3. Thy Motion
4. How You Alive
5. Thinking Bout You
6. Praying 4 Love
7. Reality
8. A Feeling (feat. Skye Morales)
9. Romantic Fantasy
10. I’m Mad at Me (feat. Lil Wayne)
11. Closed Doors (feat. Roddy Ricch)
12. Action
13. Left 4 Dead
14. Wind (feat. The Kid LAROI)
15. Helicopter (feat. Tommy Lee Sparta)
16. Took My Breath Away (feat. Skye Morales)
17. Flowers (feat. Bryson Tiller)
18. The Hate
19. Trip McKnight


 

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