To coincide with the release the influential five-piece will head out on a UK tour, including a show at Oxford’s O2 Academy 2 on Tuesday 15 March. The band will then tour Europe in April before returning to their hometown to headline Liverpool Sound City Festival on 29¬†May. Tickets for the tour go on sale 9am on Friday 27¬†November and the album is available to pre order now from¬†http://www.thecoral.co.uk.
Distance Inbetween is The Coral’s first album of original material since 2010’s Butterfly House, a gap punctuated by last year’s surprise release of their lost album, The Curse of Love. Since their debut EP release in 2001 the band have sold over a million UK albums, with five reaching the Top 10 including 2003’s chart-topping Magic and Medicine. Their eight Top 40 singles include Dreaming Of You, In The Morning, Pass It On, and Don’t Think You’re The First.
Recorded at Liverpool’s Parr Street Studio with co-producer Richard Turvey, Distance Inbetween was recorded live and mostly in just one take. The seams of each of the album’s 12-tracks are purposely rough-hewn and pave the way for a new visceral sound from a totally reenergised band.
James Skelly (vocals, guitars) said: “Before we started making the album we had discussed that we wanted it to be more minimal and rhythmical.
‚ÄúWe thought ‚Äòif you’ve got a rhythm section that‚Äôs been playing together for almost twenty years, why not make that the centre of the songs?‚Äô”
On the album James, Ian Skelly (drums/percussion/vocals), Nick Power (keyboard/vocals), and Paul Duffy (bass/keyboards/vocals) are joined by Coral newbie, guitarist Paul Molloy, formerly of The Zutons.
James added: ‚ÄúPaul was playing with Ian in their band, Serpent Power, and we’d all been mates with him for years.
‚ÄúWe already had a couple of tunes recorded and Ian suggested Paul add some guitar. His parts really enhanced the tracks; he understood where he needed to leave space. From that point we didn’t look back. We had a full line-up and were confident we could make an album that would stand next to the others.”
On¬†Distance Inbetween¬†listeners are invited into The Coral‚Äôs world of Richard Yates‚Äô books, Alan Moore comics, 1980’s toys, the sound of krautrock compilations and Muddy Waters‚Äô Electric Mud, and Gregory Crewdson‚Äôs darkly beautiful photography.
The album is dedicated to Alan Wills, The Coral’s early mentor and Deltasonic label boss who tragically lost his life in 2014.