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After the release of Horse Rotorvator, Coil left Some Bizzare Records, since they fell out with its owner Stevo Pearce. [43] Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) followed as a full-length release in 1987, marking the beginning of the band's own label, Threshold House—the album is described in the liner notes as "not the follow-up to Horse Rotorvator, but a completely separate ...
The original Coil / Zos Kia tape, Transparent, was released as a "His-Storical" CD reissue in 1997. [ 18 ] During Coil's 23-year career, Balance collaborated with a number of his peers, including Jim Thirlwell/Clint Ruin (Foetus) , Marc Almond , Thighpaulsandra , NON , Current 93 , and CoH ; appearing on many of these artists' albums.
The Ape of Naples is composed of reworked material that Coil had created in varying forms since the inception of Backwards, their aborted Nothing Records album created during a period that Christopherson dubbed "the New Orleans era", [3] as well as songs that were previously only played live in improvisational form on the mini-tours Coil undertook in the early 2000s.
It was recorded at various studios in London during 1984 and produced by the band along with JG Thirlwell; the album features a prominent appearance of Stephen Thrower, who subsequently became an official member of Coil starting with the group's following album, Horse Rotorvator. Despite its title, the album focuses on alchemy, mainly an idea ...
Coil 2:13 LP Unnatural History: 1985 Devastate to Liberate "Restless Day" Coil 4:24 cassette, LP Scatology (CD pressing) 1985 The Fight Is On "Sicktone" Coil 3:21 LP Unnatural History: 1985 If You Can't Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your Soul "The Wheel" Coil 2:41 CD, LP The Wheel: 1985 U.K. Buzz#006 "The Wheel" Coil 2:42 LP The Wheel: 1985
Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil is a CD by Coil, released the same year as Queens of the Circulating Library. Like Queens, this album originally came packaged only in a pink c-shell case, with no official cover art except the on-disc printing. According to the credits, "Coil were Thighpaulsandra, John Balance, & Peter Christopherson.
[2] [6] The cover photograph was shot by the band and shows the bandstand in Regent's Park, London, which was subject to the Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings four years before the album's release. A cover of Leonard Cohen's "Who by Fire" is featured on the album. "Ostia" meditates on the murder of radical Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo ...
How to Destroy Angels is the debut extended play by British experimental band Coil. At this point, the group consisted only of John Balance and Peter Christopherson . [ 2 ] It was originally released in 1984 on L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords , but was later re-pressed in 1988.