Roots & Echoes is the fourth full-length studio album

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 by English

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 indie rock

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 band

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 The Coral

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. It was released on August 6, 2007, and debuted in the UK Albums Chart

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 at #8, the lowest entry in that chart for the band (see 2007 in British music

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). It subsequently dropped out of the top 20 in its second week and had fallen out of the top 50 by its third week in the chart. The band did not subsequently tour for the album very much, appearing at Glastonbury and supporting the Arctic Monkeys on a few dates around Ireland and the UK.

Unlike the band's first four albums, Roots & Echoes has yet to be released in the United States

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, only available there as an import or via digital download

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.

Track listing

Personnel

The Coral

• James Skelly – vocals, guitar, producer, arrangements
• Lee Southall – guitar, 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, producer, arrangements, string arrangements
• Paul Duffy – bass guitar, producer, arrangements
• Nick Power – keyboards, producer, arrangements
• Ian Skelly – drums, producer, arrangements, design

Production

• Craig Silvey
  Craig Silvey (producer)
  -Early Career:Craig Silvey began his career as an engineer at Skywalker Sound working and training under producer/inventor George Massenburg and working with contemporary classical act Kronos Quartet...
  
   – producer, engineer, mixing
• 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
• Phil Brown – engineer
• David McDonnell – assistant engineer
• Serge Krebs – assistant engineer, assistant mixing
• Raj Das – assistant engineer
• Marcus Holdaway – string arrangements
• George Marino – mastering

Additional musicians

• Martin Holdaway – strings
• Sally Herbert – strings
• Katherine Shave – strings
• Nicola Sweeney – strings
• Brian Wright – strings
• Ellen Blair – strings
• Jackie Norrie – strings
• Matthew Draper – oboe
• Leila Ward – oboe
• Martin Dunsdon – flute

Other personnel

• Kevin Power – design, photography
• Ray Tang – photography

Chart performance

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Chart (2007)	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... )	84
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... )	33
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... )	80

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...  & Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...	3 August 2007	Columbia Records Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...	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 ,... , digital download	88697 12079 2
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...	6 August 2007	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 LP record The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry... , digital download	DLTCD069, DLTLP069