In 2025’s film Dreaming of You, The Coral looked back a quarter-century at the creation of their Mercury Prize-nominated debut album. “It’s the sound of kids with their imaginations cracked open, allowed to run free,” offered James Skelly. “When you capture that, that can’t really be beaten,” added Nick Power. “You never get that again.” Recognising that the past is indeed a foreign country but impossible to escape has been a theme throughout the band’s lifespan, and the documentary process apparently brought this conundrum to the fore when subsequently making this thirteenth Coral album: consciously or otherwise, 388 summons the sounds that first cracked those impressionable teenage heads.
After three more or less conceptual albums…

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