'Roots & Echoes' is the record to remind you what a brilliant and unique band The Coral are. Its songs glow with warmth and heart, musicality and melody. Where previous Coral albums would descend into frantic jams, this one is less Beefheart and more Bacharach. "We've become better songwriters," says Skelly. "So we don't have to hide behind the weird stuff as much. I think that suited us when we first started, but we wanted to be able to play every song on this album on an acoustic and know it'd stand up as a good song."