Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on April 13, 2015, 12:38:44 PM
Of course legendary band what has been discussed everywhere for many decades. But here no topic for Coil yet.
Today listened some COIL cd's. Panic is something I didn't feel very strongly in past. My memories of the recording were plagued by idea of slappy-bass funk industrial, but now listening this after many years it is much much better than I remembered.
There is one track what I don't care much, but overall, very nice. I like works with old fashioned sampled feel. It still has "hand made" feel. Little clumsiness. Something that appears "real". Not just "music made of screen". It adds something very different to the overall feel.
But even more, perhaps the best COIL I know so far: The Angelic Conversation CD. Released in 90's, but originally music from the 1985 film of Derek Jarman. It has certainly more cinematic feel to it. Lots of field recordings. Eerie passages of organs/bow instruments. Spoken word pieces. Acoustic sounds. Very good stuff. I wonder if Coil discography has more of this type of stuff? As I have yet to hear other releases what would be this good.
Then again, actually 90's stuff, Coil vs ELpH "Born Again Pagans" split CD ep is pretty horrid to me. There is very very narrow path of electronic beat music I can stand. There is handful of bands I worship, but mostly this kind of "dance club" stuff makes me irritated. And basically most Coil seems to fit on that category, and no amount of non-musical points of interest makes it possible to digest their later works of such style. ELpH is basically just Coil. But unrehearsed, unconscious. Spontaneous sounds coming out from electronic gear. Some of the short tracks are very warm and light, others has much more darker tone. Easily better than Coil dance track here.
COIL and FOETUS are the only acts I could admit to being influenced by.
The stuff with "Elph" is apparently them attempting to contact some other demon or astral creature. It is not supposed to technically be COIL. I wouldn't base my opinion of them off of that release, aside from the obvious deduction that they're drug-addled occultniks.
You may like "Queens of the Circulating Library" if you like the Angelic Conversation.
Also, I don't care much for their "beat shit" either, but to me there's not as much of it as you may think.
I love the intricacy of their sampled work. I still don't know how they did it. I've heard the sample sources. I know they must've had a pretty top-notch sampler in 1984, and even then, it must've been absolutely tedious to make something like "Ubu Noir" on a Fairlight.
I enjoy "Love's Secret Domain", despite not liking "Windowpane" and "The Snow" (beat shit/hit singles) as much, still the album is great. Unreleased Hellraiser Themes, Horse Rotorvator, Scatology; these are among my favorites of their 80s work. "Chaostrophy" is an amazing track from that one.
After "Love's Secret Domain" you have the addition of Drew McDowall and Thighpaulsaundra, not to mention some appearances by Rose McDowall, and others. The pace changed from beats to soundscapes and drones a lot of the times. If you haven't heard "Musick To Play In The Dark" 1 or 2, I would try it before you dismiss the rest of their work.
I could keep going and going. As far as this release of "Backwards", I have ordered it, but it's clearly an unofficial release, and I'm a bit apprehensive. I'm sure it's been cared for better than some of the other bootlegs, but the cover art is not something that I think COIL would stand for in the slightest, so it could be shabby all around. PLus, it was techinically finished in 1996, and was supposed to be the end of their "beat shit" so it could go either way.
