{"product_id":"coil-musick-to-play-in-the-dark-clear-w-white-splatter-2xlp","title":"COIL 'MUSICK TO PLAY IN THE DARK'  2LP (Clear \u0026 White Splatter Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCOIL \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMusick To Play in The Dark\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReissued for the first time in over 20 years, now on \u003cstrong\u003edouble vinyl LP\u003c\/strong\u003e with the complete, unedited versions of each song and an exclusive \"D-side\" vinyl art etching. Packaged in a sturdy matte jacket with embossed lettering and spot-gloss design elements. Completely remastered by engineer Josh Bonati with restored artwork and layout by Nathaniel Young - all under the project supervision of Drew McDowall and Thighpaulsandra.ami\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFew groups in recent history forged as confounding and alchemical a body of work as Coil, the partnership of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and John Balance. From album to album and phase to phase their recordings spelunk perplexing depths of esoteric industrial, occult electronics, and drugged poetry, both embodying and alienating parallel currents of their peers. The late 1990's in particular were a fertile era for the duo, embracing chance, chaos, and collaboration, enhanced by recent advancements in synthesis and sampling. Fittingly, at the summit of the decade's long, intoxicated arc, their divergent strains of interstitial ritual congealed into one of Coil's most celebrated and hallucinatory creations: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMusick To Play In The Dark.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eConvening at Balance and Christopherson's vast Victorian house \/ studio in the coastal town of Weston-super-Mare, they began a series of ambitious sessions aided by inner circle associates Thighpaulsandra and Drew McDowall. Although the creative process was admittedly “iterative” and “a bit of a drug blur,” the results are astoundingly inventive and well realized, winding through shades of divination dirge, wormhole kosmische, noir lounge, ominous humor, and black mass downtempo, guided by Balance's cryptic lunar muse, which he announces on the opening track: “\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is moon musick \/ in the light of the moon\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat's most remarkable about the album 20 years after its release is how brazen, insular, and unpredictable it still feels. The songs follow an allusive, altered state logic all their own, warping from microscopic ripples of glitch and breath to widescreen warlock psychedelia and back again, as much hyper-sensory as inter-dimensional. Even within a catalog as eclectic as Coil's, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMusick\u003c\/em\u003e is a mystifying collection, oneiric evocations of desire, decadence, dinner jazz, and dietary advice, far beyond the pale of whatever gothic industrial ambiguity birthed such a journey.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe record closes with a slow, starlit shuffle, bathed in seething sweeps of spectral texture and high cathedral keys, like approaching the altar of some arcane temple. As the trance thickens Balance's voice rises, processed into an increasingly eerie, gaseous haze, but he resists these unseen forces, intent on delivering a final sermon: “\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThrough hissy mists of history \/ the dreamer is still dreaming \/ the dreamer is still dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SECRETLY DISTRO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67497757737178,"sku":"COIL-MUSICK-TO-PLAY-IN-DARK-CLEAR-WHITE-SPLATTER-LP","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/4709\/4490\/files\/coilwhite.jpg?v=1791230748","url":"https:\/\/metaledgemag.com\/products\/coil-musick-to-play-in-the-dark-clear-w-white-splatter-2xlp","provider":"Metal Edge","version":"1.0","type":"link"}