Coil – Moon’s Milk (In Four Phases) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:27:41 minutes | 2,50 GB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dais Records
First compiled as a double CD in 2002, ‘Moon’s Milk (In Four Phases)’ is a suite of four EPs that Coil released seasonally via their in-house Eskaton imprint across 1998. The line-up for these sessions were John Balance, Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson, Drew McDowall, and William Breeze. Recorded primarily at their home studio in Chiswick, London on the eve of a permanent relocation to the small seaside town of Weston-Super- Mare, the collection has long loomed as a pivotal and pinnacle work in the group’s discography, but has never been officially reissued, or repressed on vinyl. Time has only ripened its tapestry of regal strangeness.
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Coil – Love’s Secret Domain (30th-Anniversary Edition) (1991/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:42 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Techno
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Infinite Fog Productions
In 1991, Coil released the third of their early classic full-length albums “Love’s Secret Domain”, seemingly casting aside the gloom and funereal beauty of its predecessors in favour of a painstakingly multi-layered hallucinogenic electronic beast, which unlike some of their fellow ex-industrial contemporaries’ releases of the time wasn’t an attempt at easy accessibility or (the-gods-forbid) danceability, but a vibrating psychedelic masterpiece unrivalled in their discography and still a landmark album.
To mark its 30 year anniversary Infinite Fog are beyond proud to present an expanded, fully remastered re-release of this fan favourite available for the first time ever in its entirety on vinyl with 10 rare and mostly unreleased tracks and alternative versions from the period added as a bonus to a luxurious 3LP/2CD set.
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Coil – Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:45 minutes | 685 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dais Records
The turn of the millennium ushered in an apex visionary phase for English esoteric duo Coil. Relocating from the city to the coastal quiet of Weston-super-Mare freed them to follow even more fringe obsessions, fully untethered from peer influence. During a single six-month stretch in 2000 they released the devious underworld sequel to Music To Play In The Dark, arcane drone summit Queens Of The Circulating Library, and a malevolent hour-long synthesizer exorcism prophetically titled Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil. This latter work remains one of the group’s most miasmic and mind-expanding creations, on par with Time Machines – a sustained divination of shuddering, psychoactive noise, rippling with the motion sickness of an all-seeing eye.
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Coil – The New Backwards (extended edition) (2008/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:06:59 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Infinite Fog Productions
“The New Backwards” was conceived by Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson in 2007, revisiting stray tracks which hadn’t seemed to gel with the material he had chosen for the more somber “Ape of Naples” from 2005, COIL’s initial posthumous release, a sort of requiem and a kiss-goodbye to his then recently deceased partner John Balance.
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Coil – Musick to Play in the Dark Vol 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:59 minutes | 568 MB | Genre: Experimental, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dais Records
Two types of records usually have the highest potential for embarrassment: “comedy” records and “scary” records. Unlike an awful pub rock mistake or a tuneless ambient workout, there seems to be nothing more obnoxious than listening to a record that tries – and fails – to be either funny or frightening. Coil’s Musick to Play in the Dark 2 takes the latter stab into forbidding, blood-velvet territory and consistently bungles it up. “Ether” ends with a magnificently processed, sincerely unsettling chant, but it takes almost 11 minutes of “cats + piano” melodies to get there. Elsewhere, opener “Something” takes a deeply effective, goth Gaia heartbeat and polishes it with cartoonish “menacing” swooshes and sirens that probably could be found on a two-buck “Boo! Halloween Hits!” supermarket CD. The sincerity of Coil should not be undervalued – as work here and in the past can easily attest to – it’s the failure to harmonize it with a minimalist instinct that gets in the way. Because no matter how much somebody tries to tell you a joke or scare you, only the gifted can do it without sounding like a moron.
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Coil – Musick To Play In The Dark (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:53 minutes | 659 MB | Genre: Experimental, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dais Records
From the opening pairing of “Are You Shivering?” and the gorgeously titled “Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris in a Night,” it’s apparent that Coil was making a return during 1999 that would prove to be as influential on the post-industrial scene as its 1984 debut, Scatology. The group never really went away in the ensuing period, of course, but had maintained a cult status underground for the better part of the ’90s. The duo consistently produced stunning albums, but the recordings were often in scarce limited editions that usually reached only hardcore fans. The Musick to Play in the Dark CD and LP were available through mail order only, and featured the core duo of Peter Christopherson and John Balance joined by collaborator Thighpaulsandra. The CD is the first full-length album Coil released on its own Chalice label as a subscription only release. Later in 2000, the album was thankfully re-pressed by Word Serpent, assuring wider availability. The album is a masterpiece of the caliber of the classic ’80s trilogy Scatology, Horse Rotovator, and Loves Secret Domain, which gave Coil the highest stature in the post-industrial music scene as one of the most inventive, original, and courageous groups of the genre. Musick to Play in the Dark is an utterly mesmerizing work, and is nothing short of brilliant. The album’s scope takes in the music of the ’90s, the bleak digital processing and glitch music (Oval, Coh, and Nurse With Wound all spring to mind), but here these often sterile sounds are married to a human warmth that is inimitable Coil – a sound that carries through the group’s career as one of the most distinctive in the post-industrial canon. Along with the essential Coil ’80s recordings, Musick to Play in the Dark cannot be recommended highly enough. It represents a chapter in British music that goes beyond the term industrial and into untapped realms of experimentation that place Coil, along with Current 93 and Nurse With Wound, among the ’90s British groups more deserving of attention than their obscurity may ever permit.
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