ARTIST: The Coral Sea
TITLE: Volcano And Heart
LABEL: Hidden Agenda Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 246 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 44min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-06-27
RIP DATE: 2006-06-20
Track List
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1. Look At Her Face 4:04
2. Under The Westway 3:55
3. In Between The Days 3:35
4. In This Moment's Time 4:52
5. Yesterday/Tomorrow 4:48
6. Your Time Has Come 5:36
7. Lake And Ocean 4:15
8. Fell 5:07
9. Ancient Modern People 3:46
10. Descend 4:49
Release Notes:
http://www.thecoralsea.net/
Soaring debut album from Santa Barbara atmospheric pop outfit. "The art-rock
majesty of The Coral Sea emerges breathtaking, it steals from your soul,
unsurpassed in this part of the world." Well, The Santa Barbara Independent aint
kidding either, The Coral Sea's debut is a hypnotic and mellow dreamrock album
that calls to mind classic albums by Bowie, Pink Floyd and The Beatles, with
current comparisons ranging from Yo La Tengo's melodic blue-streak zoom-pop to
Radiohead's impassioned layered vocal/guitar impressionism. Imagine a
stratospherically skillful space-pop quartet with an entire string section
behind it, and you'll be on their wavelength, but for me it all comes down to
the voice. Frontman/founder Rey Villalobos' vocals steal the show: a luminous,
sometimes androgynous croon, a silvery warble, without a glimmer of
pretension...and here my closest comparison of the moment is Mercury Rev's
Jonathan Donahue (but Rey's voice is leagues richer and less dependent on
effects) and Parasol's very own Kevin Tihista (with a bunch more Thom Yorke than
KT's ever going to show us), especially in the lyrics and phrasing departments.