NOTHING says summer quite like a Coral song. Sunny, nostalgic and beautiful, they're laced with old-fashioned country, 1960s-style psychedelia and folk. Sit around the campfire, or take a drive with the top down on a scorchingly hot day and be transported to a better place.

And thankfully, the Wirral five piece (since Bill Ryder Jones left the band) have a new album to bring the sunshine to our summer.

“I think we’ve made the best album that we’ve ever made,” says singer and co-songwriter James Skelly. “I think it has to be. Or there’s no reason for anybody to listen to it.”

This is the first album they have made without Bill, and the first they have made since their Singles Collection two years ago. It's been a chance to stop and take stock, then draw a line under what has been done and set sights on the future.

“If we never did the ‘Greatest Hits’ thing, the album wouldn’t be as good. So it was definitely a part of it,” says James. “Going back to all those tunes made you realise, ‘Yeah we’re a great band, one of the best out there.’ It cleared space in our heads and made us feel really positive about the future. We did some new songs for that release, which we produced ourselves, and that gave us loads of confidence to go in amd do this record. The whole thing was really positive for us.”

“You can definitely hear that on this one,” adds drummer Ian Skelly. “It was a great experience for us, everyone’s really positive, and pulling in the same direction. With the last two albums, there are great songs on them, but there was an underlying sadness as well.”

For the writing of Butterfly House, The Coral disappeared off to rented cottages in the countryside in the middle of nowhere. You can feel it in the imagery of the titles: Green Is The Colour, Walking In The Winter and the title track itself.