{"product_id":"coil-musick-to-play-in-the-dark2","title":"COIL- MUSICK TO PLAY IN THE DARK2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter leaving London in 1999 for the sleepy seaside retiree town of Weston-super-Mare, \u003cstrong\u003eCoil\u003c\/strong\u003e co-founders \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Balance \u003c\/strong\u003eand\u003cstrong\u003e Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson\u003c\/strong\u003e set up shop in a palatial eight-bedroom estate to pursue the outer reaches of the group’s heightening cabalistic chemistry. Among the staggering string of late-era masterpieces they produced is lunar opus\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Musick Is To Play In The Dark\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, widely hailed as an artistic zenith upon its release. The sessions that birthed it were in fact so fruitful that a second LP took shape during the creation of the first one.Aided by the recent addition of Welsh multi-instrumentalist engineer \u003cstrong\u003eThighpaulsandra\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eCoil\u003c\/strong\u003e mined further into the recesses of surrealist eldritch electronica Balance termed “moon music” – post-industrial spellcasting at the axis of narcotic and nocturnal energies. \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMusick To Play In The Dark²\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e spans a full witching hour of bad acid sound design, synthesizer voyaging, opiated balladry, Luciferian glitch, and subliminal hymnals, alternately ominous, oracular, and absurd. Scottish gothic icon \u003cstrong\u003eRose McDowall\u003c\/strong\u003e guests on vocals for two tracks but otherwise the album is a hermetic affair, tapping into the group’s limitless insular synergy.Opener \u003cem\u003eSomething\u003c\/em\u003e is stark and incantational, a spoken word experiment for windswept voids. \u003cem\u003eTiny Golden Books\u003c\/em\u003e unspools an aerial whirlpool of cosmic synth, both whispery and widescreen. \u003cem\u003eEther\u003c\/em\u003e is an exercise in funeral procession piano and intoxicated wordplay (“It's either ether or the other”), while \u003cem\u003eWhere Are You?\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBatwings – A Liminal Hymn\u003c\/em\u003e lurk like liturgical murmurings heard on one’s death bed, framed in granular FX and flickering candlelight.As a whole the collection skews more muted and remote than its predecessor, as if having grown accustomed to the nether regions of these darkening seances.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSomething\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTiny Golden Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEther\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParanoid Inlay\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn Emergency\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhere Are You\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBatwings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Volcanic Vinyl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53167833612588,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/3947\/9852\/files\/0027017542_10.webp?v=1777952392","url":"https:\/\/volcanicvinyl.co.nz\/products\/coil-musick-to-play-in-the-dark2","provider":"Volcanic Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}