The Coral Butterfly House

Butterfly House is The Coral's first album since the departure of guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones, and it finds them continuing to evolve and mature. They started out as something akin to The Clientele's louder, weirder cousins, creating left-field psychedelia mixed with contemporary Britpop. They've gotten less eccentric with each album, but more mature and substantive, and Butterfly House keeps that progression going. It's more pop-oriented than anything they've done before, but still full of strong '60s influences.

Abstract by Jim Allen