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  • Summary: Although the indie rock band has been on hiatus since 2010, the latest release from the British quintet is an album of unreleased tracks recorded in 2006 on an 8-track recorder.
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  • Record Label: Skeleton Key Records
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
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  1. 80
    The Curse Of Love is a neat record, filled with the mystic folk and lithe psychedelia that made them so refreshing back in the day.
  2. Mojo
    Nov 19, 2014
    80
    Superbly eerie and echoey evocations such as View From The Mirror and The Golden Bough don't need big productions to make your ears prick up, just their disturbing use of minor chords and subtle sound effects. [Dec 2014, p.90]
  3. Nov 13, 2014
    80
    The group really did a fine job of crafting something low-key and gloomy here.
  4. Q Magazine
    Nov 13, 2014
    80
    It's easily enough to leave you wishing The Coral would get their distinctive acts together again soon. [Dec 2014, p.108]
  5. 40
    For the most part The Curse of Love doesn’t offer any of the pop hooks that made early Coral albums so enjoyable.
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