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Coral - Magic And Medicine

Coral
Magic And Medicine

The Coral's second album is assured and filled with proper tunes that run the gamut from winsome folk pop to blustery British Invasion-styled R&B. Its nods to Dylan, the Doors and Beefheart are blatant, but the Coral's nouveau psychedelia, with its skittery tempo changes and soulful grace -- is getting harder to resist.

A contemporary version of Nuggets, the Sixties garage-psych-rock compilation series, might well include a song from British band the Coral. But it wouldn't be a song from this album. Like so many of the flower-power rockers they emulate on Magic and Medicine, the Coral seem to have run out of material after they recorded their debut. Whereas their first CD, 2002's
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The Coral, folded an unexpected Eastern European folk-music vibe into its psychedelic rock, Magic is little more than mimicry and affectation. The Coral lift from the playbooks of true Sixties weirdos, including Love (on the poncy "Don't Think You're the First" and "Eskimo Lament"), the Seeds ("Talkin' Gypsy Market Blues") and the Music Machine ("Milkwood Blues"). Perhaps most annoying are singer James Skelly's inane rhyming couplets about "birds in the trees" singing "sweet melodies" or a "secret kiss" and "forgotten bliss." Those are nuggets of an unsavory kind.

JENNY ELISCU
(RS 942, February 19, 2004)

Coral Records and CDs:
Altamont In Dub Bill Mccai Coral Don't Think You're The First Dreaming Of You		Goodbye In The Morning Invisible Invasion Magic & Medicine		Nightfreak And The Sons Of Becker Pass It On Pillow Talk Secret Kiss		Skeleton Key Ep

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		Artist		Title	Condition	Format	Price USD [Change]	Seller	Location
		Coral (artist)		Magic And Medicine [import] Year: 2003; Label: Sony/epic	New	CD	$19.98	SSM Music	USA

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