Coral Grief - Air Between Us *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 18th July 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

"Their music is wondrously dreamy, floating in the ether with gentle textures and
focused rhythms.” - Post-Trash
Coral Grief, the Seattle rock trio, and Air Between Us, its debut album, are accurately named. The first notes from Sam Fason’s guitar on opener “Starboard” hit like a blast of sea air to the face. In just seconds, you’re soaring, equal parts under the sky and above the sea. It’s a similar in-between where Coral Grief thrives, as they construct elaborate webs of double meanings across this tribute and eulogy to their city and community.
Singer and bassist Lena Farr-Morrissey and Fason are linked by the psychic
chemistry one can only unlock by playing together in bands for years. Fason’s guitar is the sail to Farr-Morrissey’s anchor, and here, he crafts textures thick as sheets of wind. Tying it all together—the engine in this nautical metaphor—is drummer Cam Hancock, who came highly recommended by mutual friends. His propulsive playing serves as a bridge of ideas, their final puzzle piece, a master of dynamics and transitions that shoves their songs into new territory without showing off. Together, they draw inspiration from Stereolab, Broadcast, Th’ Faith Healers, and Seefeel, to name just a few, reframing that very specific strain of British cool in a uniquely Pacific Northwest way.
To bring the songs to life, the trio decamped to The Unknown–a decommissioned church turned sail manufactory turned recording studio in Anacortes, WA. Working with engineer Nich Wilbur on a diet of five matchas a day, the workspace became their workshop. “We were committed to the three piece way of doing things but wanted to make it sound as lush and as full as possible,” Fason explained.

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