The Coral: Butterfly House | CD review

(Deltasonic)The Coral were once the Heston Blumenthals of pop: they used the same ingredients as most other indie bands, but what they concocted was refreshingly strange. But with their 2007 album Roots and Echoes, they transformed into meat-and-potato cooks of the plainest kind. Butterfly House seems to stick to the same menu of grownup, classic folk-rock: earnest opening track More Than a Lover rakes over a severed relationship; Sandhills and Two Faces have sweet harmonies but sound as deriva...

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