2007-06-21 10:12 CEST The Coral är tillbaka med nya albumet ‘Roots and Echoes’ ‘Roots and Echoes’ was recorded at Oasis’ Wheeler End Studios and produced by Craig Silvey (The Magic Numbers). The album hums with the confidence of a band newly energised and at ease with themselves, featuring the trademark melodies and confidence which have led to over a million sales across an already stunning career. The Coral are indeed one of the UK’s most successful bands with 8 top 40 singles (4 top 10 hits) since their debut ‘Shadows Fall’ in 2001 when the band were still teenagers. The Coral find themselves as the possessors of four top 5 albums - including the mini album ‘Nightfreaks and Sons of Becker’ and chart-topping ‘Magic and Medicine’ - at an age when many bands are still breaking through. Lead singer, James Skelly is the oldest member at just 26. ‘Roots & Echoes’ finds the band invigorated after a period of soul searching following the release of their third studio album, ‘The Invisible Invasion’. It was also around this period that one of the founding members Bill Ryder-Jones decided to quit touring with the group leaving the remaining members questioning whether they should continue. Four long years of touring had taken its toll on the band and Bill’s temporary departure was the final straw. According to James Skelly, “If you take one person out of The Coral, it’s just not The Coral anymore. By the end of the last tour we were falling apart.” The band took a well deserved break and returned home to Hoylake, Merseyside. Eventually a period of demo-ing new tracks with long term friend and producer Ian Broudie along with continuous encouragement from the likes of Noel Gallagher enabled the band to rediscover their sense of purpose. The influence of The Coral on a generation of bands is hard to overstate, they returned the art of British pop song writing to the charts and gathered influential fans along the way. One is Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys who has invited the band to support them on their European tour this summer För lyssning gå in på: www.myspace.com/thecoral www.sonybmg.se Kontaktpersoner Mikaela Lundberg Presskontakt Senior PR Manager [email protected] Isabel Rodriguez Presskontakt Senior PR Manager [email protected] +46 76 117 21 93 Nellie Sörman Presskontakt PR Manager [email protected] +46704713992 Janina Sibbel-Becker Presskontakt PR Manager - utländska artister [email protected] 073-643 45 55 08-412 17 00 Nina Thorsell Presskontakt Senior PR Manager [email protected] 0736-827180 08-412 1700.