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Review: With their prior double album Coral Island still ringing in our ears and heaped with praise, Liverpool's The Coral return with a new, concept-laden follow-up taking its cues from Morricone soundtracks and creating their own backing to an imagined 'lost' Spaghetti Western. That musical influence has long been detectable in their music, but now they double down on the inspiration by trying to answer self-imposed questions such as, 'what would have happened if Lee Hazlewood had produced a Gene Pitney song written by Townes Van Zandt?' If those cues don't already get you excited, then also bear in mind their guest contributors include such acting royalty as Cillian Murphy and John Simm, which has to be worth the price of entry alone.