Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark

Released 8th April 2022.

After leaving London in 1999 for the sleepy seaside retiree town ofWeston-super-Mare, Coil co-founders John Balance and Peter Sleazy Christopherson set up shop in a palatial eight-bedroom estate to pursue the outer reaches of the groups heightening cabalistic chemistry. Among the staggering string of late-era masterpieces they produced is lunar opus MusickToPlay In The Dark, 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 engineerThighpaulsandra, Coil mined further into the recesses of surrealist eldritch electronica Balance termed moon music post-industrial spellcasting at the axis of narcotic and nocturnal energies. Musick To PlayInThe Dark spans a full witching hour of bad acid sound design, synthesizer voy