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The Coral: Magic And Medicine

Gavin Martin, Uncut, September 2003

TWO YEARS AGO, the Coral's eponymous first album introduced a group teeming with energy and a blaze of musical influences. The album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and roundly trumpeted as the arrival of the "best new band in Britain".

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