Track Listing
1. In the Forest
2. Don't Think You're the First
3. Liezah
4. Talkin' Gypsy Market Blues
5. Secret Kiss
6. Milkwood Blues
7. Bill McCai
8. Eskimo Lament
9. Careless Hands
10. Pass It On
11. All of Our Love
12. Confessions of A.D.D.D.
| Details | | Producer: | Ian Broudie, The Coral | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Includes a bonus CD of their January 2004 release, Nightfreak And The Sons Of Becker.
The Coral: James Skelly (vocals, guitar); Lee Southall (guitar, background vocals); Bill Ryder (guitar); Nick Power (piano, organ, background vocals); Paul Duffy (bass, background vocals); Ian Skelly (drums).
Recorded at Elevator Studios, Liverpool, England.
In their native Britain, the Coral quickly followed up their second album, MAGIC AND MEDICINE, with an entirely separate release called NIGHTFREAK AND THE SONS OF BECKER. Written and recorded in the space of 10 days in the studio with producer Ian Broudie, the 11-track BECKER is the Coral at their most overtly psychedelic; it's a loose, good-humored foray into shaggy, trippy freakbeat that was not really intended as the true follow-up to MAGIC AND MEDICINE. Indeed, MAGIC AND MEDICINE itself (which had not been released in the United States upon its original 2003 issue) was repackaged as a specially priced two-disc set for its U.S. release, with the second disc containing NIGHTFREAK AND THE SONS OF BECKER alongside the more mainstream Britpop of the first disc.
Editorial Reviews
3 out of 5 stars - [T]he Coral's nodding-dog skiffle-combo riffs collide with everything from dark Doors psych to arcadian English folk. It's ramshackle, it's raw, it's impassioned and, inescapably perhaps, it's suffused with the ghosts of Merseyside past...
Mojo (08/01/2003)
Ranked #32 in Mojo's The Best of 2003
Mojo (01/01/2004)
Ranked #21 in Q's The 50 Best Albums of 2003 - [Features] everything from furious psychedelia to tender balladry...
Q (01/01/2004)
The Coral's shaggy, shambling brand of Britpop takes a more refined turn on their second album... - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (02/13/2004)
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