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Bridging their UK Chart No.2 success and the sun-bleached sets of imagined films, the physical formats-only release of \u003cem\u003eHoly Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show\u003c\/em\u003e makes it two albums in one year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSingular psych-folk-pop-rock wanderers, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Coral\u003c\/strong\u003e revel in a resurgent phase of artistic enquiry and release two albums at the same time. Imagining the scorched sand, cardboard cowboys, and flooded sets of a never-made Italian spaghetti western, the single \"\u003cem\u003eWild Bird\u003c\/em\u003e\" snaps the clapperboard on a new story playing out all the way to the release of \u003cem\u003eSea Of Mirrors\u003c\/em\u003e, the band’s eleventh studio album ‘proper’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter 2021’s expansive \u003cem\u003eCoral Island\u003c\/em\u003e album landed the Number 2 spot on the UK’s Official Album Chart and won unanimous critical praise, material for two further albums occurred to the band. 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