It’s a mixture between old Coney Island stuff mixed with Brighton Rock, British seaside literature, comic books, in that classic tradition but with more of a modern take on it. I did a tour diary which came out with the last album and we just thought it’s a good thing for fans to have as well. It references characters and things in the songs and expands on that world. Nick: “I started the book as we were coming towards the end of the album. We got this idea that Part One of our album was the soundtrack to the rides in the summer and Part Two was about the characters.” What gave you the idea for the book? I also saw that Springsteen documentary about ‘The River’ and he said the rock ‘n’ roll songs were like the bands playing on the boardwalk and the slower ones were the characters who lived in those places. We were like, ‘We’ve never done our ‘White Album’. “It originally started off as a concept that ‘Coral Island’ was a place where our ideas came together, but then it started to grow from there. It’s not quite that, it’s more like a theme.
THE FACELESS DOUBLE FULL
A full concept album is when it goes into ‘Tommy’ or something like that. I also liked ‘Village Green’, The Ogdens and ‘Sgt. James: “It was, but it was also to do with Arctic Monkeys‘ last album in the sense that there was another world but it was thematic. The Coral perform at The Leadmill CREDIT: Gary Wolstenholme/Redferns What’s this about the album being based on Bruce Springsteen’s double LP ‘The River’? Most of them are like murder ballads or songs about being haunted by girlfriends who have died in a drag race crash.”
THE FACELESS DOUBLE CODE
It’s like an unspoken code that none of them will break. It’s not the same playlist but there’s a chief DJ, who’s gotta play spooky rock ‘n’ roll on the waltzers. If you go round quite a lot of waltzers, they actually stick to that soundtrack. The one thing that is still clear in my memory is how the waltzers had a really strict soundtrack with the likes of Joe Meek and Gene Vincent, British rock ‘n’ roll with a bit of Pink Floyd thrown in there for whatever reason. Nick Power: “They’re all places that we like as a band – especially Rhyl. It’s like a fallen angel and a pulp mystery, based on old comics.” The ‘Faceless Angel’ was sort of meant to be a ride.
But the song is about the celebration of mystery. “It came from this idea, inspired by the sort of pre- Beatles around the time of Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers and Joe Meek’s ‘Johnny Remember Me’, that type of thing,” frontman James Skelly told NME. To get a taster of what’s to come, the band have shared launch single ‘Faceless Angel’. Although they have stated that 1BeatHeart was going to be their last game, it seems they are making two more: Faceless Double and Ayakashi Akashi.The Coral have shared details of their spooky new single ‘Faceless Angel’ and talked exclusively to NME about their forthcoming thematic double album ‘Coral Island’.įuelled by their own fairground memories and fantasies, 10th album ‘Coral Island’ sees the band soundtracking bustling seaside towns in the summer on the first half of the record before waltzing into the lonely lives of characters who inhabit the island during the cold winter on the second. However, Miwashiba recently announce that they would be making one last game, a sequel to 1bitHeart called 1BeatHeart. They have stated that because they wanted to improve their illustrations, but that can't be done when making games, so they decided to make a comic called NotEvil!. They can't pick their favorite character in the whole game.Īt first, they decided that 1bitHeart would be the last game they will make. They have a picrew account wherein they've created three picrews. They also opened an ask account, claiming that they'll be answering questions there instead of tumblr.Ī full playlist of all their vocaloid works can be found here. They have accounts on multi-platforms including twitter and tumblr,Īs well as an official website which can be found here. They are also the illustrator for V4 flower and Meika Hime and Mikoto, the illustrations can be seen here.įor more information on what illustrations they have drawn, go here. Miwasiba is the creator of 1bitHeart, as well as a handful of other games such as Alice Mare, and the LiEat series.Īside from working on games they are also an illustrator, their most notable works being their work for vocaloid song music videos, for example Okochama Sensou (Childish War). Miwashiba has decided to keep their gender identity secret, and do not wish for people to question it further.
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