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Coil return with more moon musick. This is volume 2 of a hopefully
neverending series begun last year with the well received volume 1. Here Coil
are the trio of Balance, Sleazy and Thighpaulsandra, with the addition of some
vocals by frequent collaborator Rose McDowall. "Something" welcomes us back to
the moonlit night with swooshes of digital air and Balance's deadpan recital of
the title back and forth across the stereo field. "Tiny Golden Books" churns
through bits of digital sound and digitzed vocals during a lengthy bass throb
fed journey. "Ether" sets Balance's effected vocals to Thighpaulsandra's
melancholy drenched piano until he turns his mind off in a slow motion spoken
wind down. "Paranoid Inlay" is an unsettling mix of digital glitch bits with an
almost too cute synth melody and Balance eerily declaring "serenity is a
problem". "An Emergency" is a brief, creaky interlude with Rose angelically
singing the question "are you bathing in moonlight?" "Where Are You?" imitates
the crackling of fire with pops and clicks as background for a music box-like
melody motif. Here Balance's lyrics are the most evocative: "are you still
looking for things that no one else can see?", "is the cage you love the home
you also hate?", "I'll wrap my last kiss in a bandage", etc. "Batwings"
continues the feel of the previous track but culminates in a mysterious medley
of male voices in strange tongues. All in all volume 2 is another masterpiece
just as strong as the first volume. This is moon musick ... bizarre, beautiful,
spiritual, tidal, suicidal. How do they keep doing it? Who knows? Who cares?
What's next? The very latest album out now is "Constant Shallowness Leads To
Evil". - Mark Weddle. Released on Threshold House and available October 9th,
2006.
Download an mp3 clip
here!
1. Something
2. Tiny Golden Books
3. Ether
4. Paranoid Inlay
5. An Emergency
6. Where Are You
7. Batwings (A Limnal Hymn)
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Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 2 |
CD $28.50
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