Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker is a "mini-album"

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 by The Coral

The Coral

The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The band first emerged during the early 2000s and found success with their debut album The Coral and follow up Magic and Medicine...

. It was recorded over a week and a half in North Wales

Wales

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, at Bryn Derwen Studios, once again produced by Ian Broudie

Ian Broudie

Ian Broudie is a British singer-songwriter, musician and record producer from Liverpool, England. After emerging from the post punk scene in Liverpool in the late 1970s as a member of Big in Japan, Broudie went on to form the short-lived groups Original Mirrors and Care in the early 1980s as well...

. It is not considered a third album as such, more of a stop-gap between Magic and Medicine

Magic and Medicine

-Personnel:The Coral* James Skelly – vocals, guitar, co-producer* Lee Southall – guitar, backing vocals, co-producer* Bill Ryder-Jones – guitar, co-producer* Paul Duffy – bass guitar, backing vocals, co-producer...

and the follow-up, The Invisible Invasion

The Invisible Invasion

The Invisible Invasion is the third full-length album by The Coral. It was released on May 23, 2005 in the United Kingdom and entered at #3 in the album charts . The production is by Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley of Portishead, and most critics have described this album as a more stripped-down...

. No singles were taken from Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker. The album was spontaneous, with some of the tracks being written on the day, like "Grey Harpoon". It was limited to 75,000 Copies.

Track listing

Personnel

The Coral

• James Skelly – vocals, guitar, co-producer, arrangements
• Lee Southall – guitar, co-producer, arrangements
• Bill Ryder-Jones
  Bill Ryder-Jones
  Bill Ryder-Jones is an English musician and film score composer from West Kirby, Merseyside. He was originally the lead guitarist with The Coral from 1996 until 2008 before leaving the band to pursue a solo career...
  
   – guitar, co-producer, arrangements
• Paul Duffy – bass guitar, co-producer, arrangements
• Nick Power – keyboards, co-producer, arrangements
• Ian Skelly – drums, co-producer, arrangements, artwork

Production

• Ian Broudie
  Ian Broudie
  Ian Broudie is a British singer-songwriter, musician and record producer from Liverpool, England. After emerging from the post punk scene in Liverpool in the late 1970s as a member of Big in Japan, Broudie went on to form the short-lived groups Original Mirrors and Care in the early 1980s as well...
  
   – producer
• Jon Gray – engineer
• Gary Butler – mastering

Other personnel

• Kevin Power – design, photography
• Juno – design

Chart performance

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Chart (2004)	Peak position
France (SNEP Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry... )	59
Ireland (Irish Albums Chart Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically... )	35
Japan (Oricon Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc... )	68

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	26 January 2004	Deltasonic Deltasonic Deltasonic is an English record label based in Liverpool, England. Previously joint ventured with Sony Music, it is now totally independent. It was formed by Alan Wills, the former drummer with Liverpool bands Shack and Top.-History:...	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , LP, digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	DLTCD018, DLTLP018,