「这是自我们首张专辑之后我听过最棒的音乐。」能够得到前The Stone Roses低音吉他手Mani 的大力推荐，深受60年代迷幻音乐和民歌影响的英国五人乐队The Coral全新专辑《Butterfly House》，并没有教乐迷失望。 自从2008年原乐队成员Bill Ryder Jones离队，以及同年九月乐队出版了一张单曲精选专辑后，在过去一段长时期乐队成员一直为新作而努力，也借此检讨乐队的不足之处。结果在慢工出细货下，《Butterfly House》被多家音乐杂志异口同声地评价为The Coral的最佳专辑。能够长期在英国乐坛屹立不倒，已可知The Coral这队曾获得Mercury Music Prize提名的乐队殊不简单，然而，从《Butterfly House》里看到乐队依然不断进步，更是难能可贵。 How many acts put out a collection of their Greatest Hits before slowly fading away into the annals of music history? It's something of a rhetorical question, of course, because said release has traditionally marked the creative death knell for a band. In recent times Supergrass and Oasis spring most immediately to mind as pertinent examples of this phenomena. The Coral shared stages with them both, and when the Wirral quintet (n�e sextet) put out their fifth album � 2007's fairly pedestrian Roots and Echoes � and followed it with a Singles Collection the following year, you'd have got decidedly speculative odds on them being the last band standing in 2010. But you'd be quids in now: despite being a guitarist down (Bill Ryder-Jones departed after Roots and Echoes), they've regrouped admirably and made a comeback record that strives for, and indeed almost reaches, the dizzying heights of 2002's self-titled debut. With John Leckie (Radiohead, The Stone Roses) behind the desk, Butterfly House displays a focus and clarity that they've struggled to rediscover ever since their breakthrough. Crucially, too, it also sounds like they're enjoying themselves again. Bookended by ominous Morricone-esque opener More Than a Lover (a track the band say was a watershed moment during recording) and ending on expansive, freak-out finale North Parade (After the Fair) (is that ringing opening chord a nod to A Hard Day's Night?), The Coral's sixth album doesn't look to reinvent their 60s-influenced sound as such, but it does harbour some of their better recorded moments � of which those are certainly two. Elsewhere, Roving Jewel channels American jangle-poppers The Byrds with its quicksilver guitar lines and breezy harmonies; She's Coming Around showcases the band's playful side with nods to mariachi sounds and an unexpected double-time closing passage; and the title-track unwraps itself slowly with more glorious multi-part vocal lines before erupting in a sea of guitars. They were never, ever going to astound us by delivering a math-rock or dubstep album as their comeback, but Butterfly House successfully arrests a worrying decline. And now they've got past the dreaded Greatest Hits phase, who'd bet against The Coral reaching a delightful dozen? --Rob Webb Description 'Butterfly House' is the fifth studio album from Liverpool indie quintet The Coral. It is their first release since 2007's 'Roots And Echoes', and the album took two years to write, as the band decided to heavily road-test their new material before recording it. 'Butterfly House' was produced by John Leckie, famous for producing Radiohead's 'The Bends' and The Stone Roses' self-titled debut.