The Coral share new track ‘Drifter’s Prayer’ with John Simm
nme.comThe Coral have shared a new single this week that features actor John Simm – listen to it below.Recently, the band spoke to NME about how Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy and Life On Mars lead actor Simm hooked up with the band for the release of two new albums in 2023.The new song, ‘Drifter’s Prayer’, is the first track to be taken from ‘Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medical Show’, which will be released on September 8.
Another album, ‘Sea Of Mirrors’ will also be released on the same day, and is inspired by ’60s Italian spaghetti western films.
The first track from that, ‘Wild Bird’, was shared last month. The latest song release features narration from Simm. James Skelly says of the collaboration with Simm: “Nick had this poem and we thought that we’d do something with, like a murder ballad.
He also had this acoustic, country-style riff so we recorded it in the studio and it fitted with the words perfectly but it needed someone to do the narration.“We just messaged John, he’d already been to a few gigs, and he said ‘yes’ straight away.
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