Coil - 'Are You Shivering?' (Official Remastered Audio)

Few 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: Musick To Play In The Dark.

Convening 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: “This is moon musick / in the light of the moon.”

What'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, Musick 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.

Dais Records:

[landofthesilverpath]

I could listen to this all day-- while I bathe in silver and drown in gold.

[amsplur]

This popped up in my Discovery List for this week. Many memories of listening to Musick to Play in the Dark, in the dark. Floods of feelings from this little surprise.

[cyklotymik]

I was always a guitar guy, listening to rock, punk and metal. But this track changed it all.
Whenever I meet up with my friends I always talk about Coil and how Coil changed my life. Some of them, got it, but most of them they don't.

[ewignichjesehn]

their uncompromising hypnotic ways to trigger the deepest layers of the psyche live on and are still seldom matched. some people just express what they have to, no matter what. always a little scared, listening to them, sometimes very...very. you never know what lurks around the next corner..not to mention the lyrics on top and the pictures they trigger.

[tyronewarren]

🗣 *Peeling back the curtain of reality!* 💯🎵

[hamblok]

If you guys remastered and rereleased the whole Coil discography I would be forever grateful (and I'd also buy every single one on vinyl)

[zhenia]

This is the darkest piece of music I've heard.

[BZ]

I've jumped scared myself more than once to this track, accidentally leaving my volume up full blast and clicking play.

[ivangeldbojemeda]

...and finally it’ll be reissued - thanks to one and only - Dais Records!

[farrahpellegrind]

Never heard this before. I like it. It is quite unique and dark!💘🔪🔪💘
🐍🌹🌹🐍

[adambazso]

It reminds me very much of the paintings of Zdzisław Beksiński, a Polish painter who created nightmarish visions.

[korndud]

Wtf is with all the ads? You think ppl wanna listen to this masterpiece and be interrupted SEVERAL TIMES with ads? Fucking pathetic. This is why people pirate.

[idontmind]

Wow, the coloured ones sold out fast!
Still black vinyls left though.

[wojfil]

sounds like "Rain Dance" by Herbie Hancock

[BlakekHz]

This is frightening. Someone must have a mother in law..