Loves Secret Domain

Coil (based around the two core members: John Balance, and Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson) have always been challenging, their first release was the one-sided 12" 'How To Destroy Angels' recorded in 1984. A 17-minute percussive improvisation subtitled "Ritual music for the accumulation of male sexual energy"; not really the kind of thing you'd pop on to kill a few idle minutes, or for a family sing-a-long for that matter. The first album 'Scatology' was equally challenging, but offers more in the way of aural-stimulation; and if you haven't heard the cover of 'Tainted Love' (ground down to half-speed) then it's worth hearing just for that. 'Horse Rotorvator' followed and seemed to benefit greatly from Balance and Christopherson gaining a little focus in their endeavours. While 'Horse Rotorvator' holds several unquestionable jewels (such as the haunting 'Ostia (the Death of Pasolini)', the nervy and unsettling single 'The Anal Staircase', and great instrumentals such as ‘Ravenous’), it was on this much later album (recorded at the close of the 80's, from 1988 to 1990) that the whole Coil-ethos seems to gel, pulsate and envelop. ‘L.S.D.’ (you mean you hadn't noticed?) is certainly less challenging than both 'Scatology' and 'Horse Rotorvator', but only insofar as it's easier to listen to (and since when has that been a crime?) and the reward it affords is most certainly equal to both.

'Out of Light Cometh Darkness', screams the cover. And out of both, screameth Coil.

Stripped and prepared from the 1991 CD release to soft and slinky MP3 @ 320kbps

Coil; Loves Secret Domain

01.   Disco Hospital

02.   Teenage Lighting 1

03.   Things Happens

04.   The Snow

05.   Dark River

06.   Where Even The Darkness Is Something To See

07.   Teenage Lighting 2

08.   Windowpane

09.   Further Back And Faster

10.   Titan Arch

11.   Chaostrophy

12.   Lorca Not Orca

13.   Love’s Secret Domain

More, as if you need it, Coil making a run for it here