{"product_id":"coil-constant-shallowness-leads-to-evil-2lp","title":"COIL - CONSTANT SHALLOWNESS LEADS TO EVIL 2LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first-ever official vinyl edition, completely remastered by \u003cstrong\u003eJosh Bonati\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe turn of the millennium ushered in an apex visionary phase for English esoteric duo \u003cstrong\u003eCoil.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThighpaulsandra\u003c\/strong\u003e characterizes the album as “an exercise in brutality,” born from a thorny patch of his Serge modular unit that \u003cstrong\u003ePeter “Sleazy” Christopherson\u003c\/strong\u003e found entrancing. Processing this sliver of electronics into a ravaged labyrinth was a trial and error process, aided by Christopherson’s visual sense of sound, stretching and manipulating it for maximum spatial disorientating. Frequencies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003enauseously crawl across the stereo field, burrowing into the ear like a sinister brainwashing experiment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn outlier \/ centerpiece is the 13-minute alien tribalist sea shanty, “I Am The Green Child,” guided by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Balance’s\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esung-spoken free verse concerning vengeance, oblivion, and insanity, culminating in the memorable refrain, “We're swimming in a sea of occidental vomit.” But the rest of the record seethes in unhinged instrumental chaos, divided into 18 micro-movements of a composition called “Tunnel Of Goats.” Intended to scramble the functionality of a CD player’s shuffle mode, the piece throbs, thrashes, and flatlines in compressed frenzies of twisted synthesis, at the threshold of some bottomless purgatory, forbidding and unknown.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1. Higher Beings Command\u003cbr\u003e2. I Am the Green Child \u003cbr\u003e3. Beige \u003cbr\u003e4. Lowest Common Abominator \u003cbr\u003e5. Free Base Chakra \u003cbr\u003e6. Tunnel of Goats\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Volcanic Vinyl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53888186974508,"sku":null,"price":78.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/3947\/9852\/files\/Coil_-_Constant_Shallowness_Leads_to_Evil.webp?v=1787455007","url":"https:\/\/volcanicvinyl.co.nz\/products\/coil-constant-shallowness-leads-to-evil-2lp","provider":"Volcanic Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}