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A Quintessential Song by The Coral Now Available as a Music Box!
★ Limited 1st Edition
★ With Individually-Numbered 1st Edition Postcard
★ Arrangement by Jon Trier (Richard Hawley Band)
★ Get involved early and collect the whole set!
The penultimate song on the first disc of The Coral's double concept-album 'Coral Island', 'Autumn Has Come' is a song that foreshadows a time when the tourists would leave the island-town that the record imagines. Recorded in Liverpool & released in 2021, the Band's 10th Studio Album drew comparisons to the Kinks' 'Village Green Preservation Society' and went on to reach number two in the UK charts.
It tells the story of "a world of end-of-the-pier day-drinkers and kids who get where they shouldn't”; which The Telegraph called a “carnivalesque cornucopia of strange delights” and Clash Magazine hailed as an "extraordinary piece of world building”. Our version captures the melancholy of the vocal melody and echoes the music box described in the song's lyric.
So with this beautiful Coral Music Box you can almost…
Take a wander through the Empty Fairground yourself!