After 20 years in the game, the Coral have been on a creative roll since their 2021 double album Coral Island, based upon a concept of a fictional seaside town but inspired by real life Blackpool. This time, the Wirral band’s even better follow-up – released in conjunction with a vinyl-only album, Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show – was conceived as a “surreal Italian spaghetti western soundtrack,” but the songs contain all manner of metaphors and allegories for crumbling modern Britain.
