The Coral - Sea Of Mirrors/Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show

Oh, to live on Coral Island.

Or, more specifically, how satisfying it must be to be in one of Britain’s most innovative, creative, and distinct bands. Following 2021’s Coral Island, a (double!) concept album – which just so happened to be one of the most critically acclaimed of their two-decade plus career - with two further concept albums, in today’s 30-second society, belies the confidence of only the truly liberated.

But James Skelly and co are no fools either and indeed, are having their cake and eating it. While Sea Of Mirrors is undergoing a bells and whistles campaign, Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show (to give it its full moniker) will only be released physically. Once it’s gone, it’s gone, etc. It’s also the obvious sequel to the last record, interspersed once again with running commentary from The Great Muriarty (Grandad Skelly) as DJ across a sequence of murder ballads. At only 30 minutes it’s a slight thing, albeit consisting of 17 tracks. 

https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/the-coral-sea-of-mirrors-holy-joes-coral-island-medicine-show/