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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]
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