Coil / Musick To Play In The Dark, Volume 2

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Artist

Coil

Album Title:

Musick To Play In The Dark, Volume 2

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Primary Genre

Industrial: General Industrial

Format

Released

00/00/2000

Reissue Date

2006

Label

Chalice

Catalog No

GRAAL CD005

Bar Code No

5 021958 406824

Packaging

Digipack

Tracks

1.	Something (5:02)
2.	Tiny Golden Books (12:19)
3.	Ether (11:32)
4.	Paranoid Inlay (7:17)
5.	An Emergency (1:18)
6.	Where Are You? (7:53)
7.	Batwings (A Limnal Hymn) (11:32)

Date Acquired

05/01/2007

Personal Rating

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Other Music.com

Purchase Price

23.99

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Reviews

All Music Guide Review:

Review by Dean Carlson
Two types of records usually have the highest potential for embarrassment: "comedy" records and "scary" records. Unlike an awful pub rock mistake or a tuneless ambient workout, there seems to be nothing more obnoxious than listening to a record that tries -- and fails -- to be either funny or frightening. Coil's Musick to Play in the Dark 2 takes the latter stab into forbidding, blood-velvet territory and consistently bungles it up. "Ether" ends with a magnificently processed, sincerely unsettling chant, but it takes almost 11 minutes of "cats + piano" melodies to get there. Elsewhere, opener "Something" takes a deeply effective, goth Gaia heartbeat and polishes it with cartoonish "menacing" swooshes and sirens that probably could be found on a two-buck "Boo! Halloween Hits!" supermarket CD. The sincerity of Coil should not be undervalued -- as work here and in the past can easily attest to -- it's the failure to harmonize it with a minimalist instinct that gets in the way. Because no matter how much somebody tries to tell you a joke or scare you, only the gifted can do it without sounding like a moron. their obscurity may ever permit.

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