Artist: The Coral Album: The Invisible Invasion (Deltasonic)

Liverpool-based band The Coral was so unique that ex-Shack drummer Alan Wills set up the Deltasonic Records label just to sign the band.

The band indeed has a unique and traditional sound, probably the most traditional among most Brit-popsters these days.

The band's sophomore album Magic and Medicine is a journey into an unknown land where garage, folk, psychedelic rock bands from the 1960s set their feet, long before individual Coral members were born.

For their third album The Invisible Invasion, The Coral, led by guitar playing-singer James Skelly, took a stripped-down approach and focused instead on crafting simple, candy-coated, at times exotic, melodies and the farthest they went was into the territory once inhabited by The Doors.

The Operator and Far From The Crowd has an eerie sound of keyboards from Doors' Ray Manzarek. Tribal sound, however, remains in Far From the Crowd and She Sings the Mourning, thanks to Ian Skelly's propulsive drumming. -- M. Taufiqurrahman