biography
"Lovely, rough-edged, melodic non-stars" Melody Maker's This issues soundtrack column
"One of London's most intriguing new bands, surely destined for greater things" - John Mullen, Mojo.com
"These guys are great!" Manuel Piñon, Super8 Magazine
The Coronets are the only group on the market making this sort of music. And this sort of music is highly intelligent, highly melodic, anthemic pop songs. Musically drawing on the unlikely duo of Pavement and Max Martin, the tunes swoop up and down while singer Phil Buckley, a latter-day and more cheerful Morrissey, zaps out his rhymes. Take Song for the Zorse - Phil's sympathetic look at being brought up in the country: 'You have an air philosophical/ ' he sings, 'while all of the air you breathe/ Can only be called rural.' In a nastier mood on the memorably-titled Another Song About Bedford, he develops the theme, spitting - 'No gays, one bookshop/ That's where I grew up'.
The Coronets are a breath of fresh air: time after time they earn rave reviews, are promoted to headline slots, and draw bigger and bigger crowds, showing how much the listening public is missing music that doesn't insult your intelligence. Phil however, grinning broadly, prefers to attribute their popularity to the number of siblings in the band: 'it's like Oasis innit, only there are two sets of siblings in the Coronets, so it's double the power. And without the crap songs. And the success.'
Random facts: the Coronets are so terrifyingly over-educated that if they wanted to, they could change their name to 'The 9 Degrees'. And it's also just possible that the missing success is now on its way.