Product Description

'The Invisible Invasion' is the third proper album by Liverpudlian psychedelic rockers The Coral. Whilst the album displays much of the wilful eclecticism of their previous releases, this time around it is the song writing rather than the sonic adventure that shines through, mixing influences such as Bob Dylan and Love with the band's own individual 'CosmicScouse' sound. Includes the single 'In The Morning'.

Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30876 in Music
• Released on: 2005-05-23
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Invisible Invasion suggests something is rotten in the world of The Coral. Not quality-wise: this collection of vintage scouseadelica, spooked Mariachi stomp and creaking, dub-inflected garage clatter is at least as proficient and ideas-packed as their 2002 debut, and a damn sight better than the stripped-down, somewhat messy stopgap that was 2004’s Nightfreak And The Sons Of Becker.

Rather, the third full-length from this Hoylake sextet sees them steer their tattered galleon into darker waters, penning songs like "She Sings The Mourning" and "A Warning To The Curious" filled to the brim with bad vibes, an unhealthy preoccupation with death and disease, and guitar solos that coil and uncoil like a hat full of maggots. Sterling tunes aplenty, but in particular, frontman James Skelly stands out here, thanks to his evident delight for dark imagery both superstitious - "An open door on the 13th floor/Conspiracy on the corridor," goes "Cripples Crown" – and plain deranged: "Can you dance with the lepers in the madman’s house?" he barks, over and over, as "Arabian Sand" barrels to a bug-eyed close. --Louis Pattison

Album Description
Work on the Coral's The Invisible Invasion began back at the start of 2004. It's produced by Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley (he of Portishead authority). 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".

Customer Reviews

Warms up Nicely
As with all Coral albums, it takes me a few listens to genuinely appreciate how good the music is. 1st listen - sounds OK but a bit up and down; 2nd & 3rd listens - There's a few stand out tracks in there. After that it all seems to make sense and the whole ablum merges and flows. Reminds me of Rattus Norvegicus by The Stranglers in places ( particularly Arabian Sand)

IT'S GETTING BETTER MAN
THE CORAL The Invisible Invasion
Deltasonic Records. 12 tracks.
At a time when our media feels there is need to force-feed us poor reincarnations of already poor 80s pop groups (Bravery/Duran Duran, Coldplay/Simple Minds, U2/U2), it's reassuring that British music can still boast bands like the Coral. Following the disappointment of third outing "Nightfreaks..." (an album which showcased a band exhausting themselves of ideas) another release from The Coral, so quickly after didn't seem to make sense. Delightful opener 'She Sings The Mourning' dispelled any doubts instantly... the band hade thankfully realised why we loved them so much on those first two albums. On the negative side there is nothing here to match tracks like 'Dreaming Of You' or 'Goodbye' but on a much larger positive side, this is devoid of the filler that marred their earlier offerings; it's easily their first complete album. Whilst you do miss the playfulness of their initial work you can't help but feel excited to hear an established act (they have after all released four albums now) which is still maturing and still improving (and the oldest member is only 24!). There aren't many bands like the Coral; capable of making such an essentially retro sound so modern (and most importantly so fresh and relevant).
Darren Howells
Blues Matters!

What? Their best yet!
The summery pop single 'In The Morning' is somewhat misleading as this album is, as you have probably read, their darkest yet. This is no bad thing, and psychedelic tracks such as 'The Operator' and 'Arabian Sand' stand out as high points of their entire career to date - the reviewers above who criticise the songwriting do not understand songwriting. The whole thing is cohesive, catchy (without being jarring) and nicely sinister. I actually skip over 'In The Morning' because it doesn't sit well with it's surrounding material, all of which is excellent.

A classic album of 2005.