Interview - James Skelly, The Coral

Given their headcount of five and their relentless creativity, it would be reasonable to assume that getting The Coral to dedicate time to a project would be akin to herding cats. Books, albums, artwork…anything can happen on Coral Island (and invariably does) but experience has given the Liverpool act the ability to harness their strengths.

Their latest creative venture comes in the form of two brand-new albums. Picking up where 2021’s sprawling-but-coherent Coral Island left off is Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show, which acts as a bridge to the more traditional Sea Of Mirrors. 

“‘Holy Joe…’ is the low-budget sequel and then we used most of the budget for Sea Of Mirrors!” explains frontman James Skelly over Zoom. “We had the ‘Holy Joe’ idea floating around and I think we’re going to go in and out of the Coral Island world over the years. It’s our world.”

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