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What really makes The Invisible Invasion excellent, better even than that oft-feted debut, is what they achieve when they go a little bit crazy.
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This is The Coral at its best: tight and stimulating, earthy and radiant.
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FilterFeels exactly like a dance-less, British-not-Scottish Franz Ferdinand who have been deeply infused with Sgt. Peppers' '60s pop whimsy. [#16, p.90]
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'The Invisible Invasion', like both it's predecessors, takes one or two listens to really get into, but once there has an engaging appeal about it that makes it possibly The Coral's most obvious "singles" album to date.
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Finds the Coral attempting to fuse both sides of their personality.
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MojoRecasting love songs as ghost stories, and with no recycled early '80s moves, The Coral's self-created world seems reinvigorated. [Jun 2005, p.96]
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Restores songcraft without losing much ambition.
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BlenderStrange and compelling. [Sep 2005, p.132]
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MagnetThis Invasion manages to be not only a perversely unique look at the Doors' cabaret rock but also makes for a catchier Coral. [#69, p.91]
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The Invisible Invasion is far from a masterpiece... but it encouragingly signals a definite progression in the Coral’s thematic and arrangement skills.
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Freed of the need to sound how people expect them to, the seven piece get the chance to show that they can turn in proper, craft-standard pop when they need to.
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UncutThey sizzle with verve and invention. [Jun 2005, p.98]
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The overall impression is of an album that you’d never be ashamed to own but wouldn’t necessarily feel the need to play all that often, either.
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Rolling StoneThey better themselves by refusing to try so damn hard. [8 Sep 2005, p.114]
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The Coral have reverted to a subdued and almost jaded sound-- Invisible Invasion reveals way too many wrinkles and stretch marks for a band barely into their twenties.
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With a darker theme comes a darker sound.
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Under The RadarRepeated listens will help get you past the initial disappointment of a less experimental Coral album. [#10, p.105]
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The Coral's trade has made them less rumbling and more meandering, more coherent but less mysterious.
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Outstanding production, clever lyrics and catchy melodies should add up to the sort of record capable of making a serious splash. Unfortunately, Invisible Invasion demonstrates an unwavering adherence to established musical traditions.
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The Invisible Invasion isn't necessarily a bad record, it's just nearly critic-proof, providing all of the evidence for whether or not any given listener will like it entirely by its many points of direct comparison.
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Q MagazineThe least adventurous and most disappointing Coral album to date. [Jun 2005, p.106]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 17
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Mixed: 1 out of 17
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Negative: 2 out of 17
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SimonSep 12, 2005
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AceKabobAug 15, 2005
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ricardolJun 23, 2005beautiful