Coil / Backwards
Artist Coil
Album Title: Backwards
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Avant Rock
Format CD
Released 10/09/2015
Label Cold Spring
Catalog No CSR203CD
Bar Code No 0641871744596
Packaging Digipack
Tracks
1. Intro (0:50)
2. Backwards (6:47)
3. Amber Rain (5:44)
4. Fire Of The Green Dragon (4:42)
5. Be Careful What You Wish For (3:48)
6. Nature Is A Language - The Test (5:38)
7. Heaven's Blade (8:18)
8. CopaCaballa (5:40)
9. Paint Me As A Dead Soul (6:47)
10. AYOR (It's In My Blood) (3:09)
11. A Cold Cell (6:20)
12. Fire Of The Mind (7:07)
Date Acquired 01/11/2016
Personal Rating
Acquired from Import_CDs (Amazon)
Purchase Price 15.76

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Notes

Issued in a 6-panel Digipak and a catalogue of Cold Spring Records.
For this, Coil were Balance and Christopherson with assistance from Drew McDowall and Danny Hyde.
All songs recorded at Slut's Hole, Creek Street, Swanyard, Intimate and Magazine Studios


foobar2000 1.3.8 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2016-01-21 00:16:39

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Analyzed: Coil / Backwards
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR8       -0.09 dB   -10.67 dB      0:52 01-Intro
DR9       -0.13 dB   -10.04 dB      6:49 02-Backwards
DR8       -0.09 dB   -10.79 dB      5:46 03-Amber Rain
DR8       -0.17 dB   -10.23 dB      4:44 04-Fire of the Green Dragon
DR8       -0.09 dB   -10.86 dB      3:50 05-Be Careful What You Wish For
DR9       -0.09 dB    -9.76 dB      5:40 06-Nature Is a Language - The Test
DR9       -0.17 dB   -10.88 dB      8:20 07-Heaven's Blade
DR9       -0.17 dB   -10.55 dB      5:42 08-CopaCaballa
DR9       -0.09 dB   -10.66 dB      6:49 09-Paint Me as a Dead Soul
DR9       -0.09 dB   -10.06 dB      3:11 10-AYOR (It's in My Blood)
DR8       -0.09 dB    -9.90 dB      6:22 11-A Cold Cell
DR9       -0.09 dB   -10.21 dB      7:08 12-Fire of the Mind
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Number of tracks:  12
Official DR value: DR9

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           884 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Reviews
AllMusic Review by Paul Simpson:

Backwards was conceived as the follow-up to Coil's excellent, dance-leaning 1991 album Love's Secret Domain, and was partially recorded and mixed at Trent Reznor's studios in New Orleans with intention for release on Nothing Records. For various reasons (possibly label-related, possibly due to dissatisfaction with the recordings, or due to changes in musical directions or general life perspectives) the album was never released, although bootleg recordings of the sessions have surfaced, and a remixed version titled The New Backwards was given a limited release in 2008. Danny Hyde, a Coil associate who co-wrote much of this album, authorized the album's release on U.K. label Cold Spring in 2015, and the album was unquestionably well worth the wait. Simply put, the album is vintage Coil, and acts as a logical midpoint between the acid house-inspired Love's Secret Domain and the mystical, celestial revelations of the Musick to Play in the Dark releases. Vocalist John Balance sounds every bit as confident, moving, profound, and menacing here as he ever has, ranging from sounding absolutely demonic on "Be Careful What You Wish For" to poetic on "Paint Me as a Dead Soul." The group sounds chaotic and possessed on the harsh, clanging "Fire of the Green Dragon," and "AYOR (It's In My Blood)" manipulates hellish screams over a steady, pumped-up techno pulse. The album's longest cut, "Heaven's Blade," melds galloping breakbeats with violins and lyrics about "blood on the sun." Several of these tracks, including the heartbreaking-as-ever "A Cold Cell," appeared in remixed form on Coil's 2005 release The Ape of Naples, and it seems beside the point to debate which versions are better; they all sound fantastic. Backwards is as brilliant and moving as any of Coil's best work, and sounds ahead of its time no matter how long it took to see the light of day.


GRAHAM DUFF’S EPIC BEST ALBUMS OF 2015 MEGA-POST

Recorded in New Orleans in 1992, but never officially released until now, Backwards finds Coil very much caught in the amber of the times. Here, their renegade electronics are still under the influence of the acid drenched club beats which had characterised their previous album Love’s Secret Domain. Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson significantly reconfigured these recordings for the 2008 album The New Backwards. But this iteration, mixed by Danny Hyde, is more closely based on the original sessions, with some songs unrecognisable from later versions. Highlights include the dreamy, glassy synths of “A Cold Cell” and the flawless “Heaven’s Blade,” wherein John Balance’s exhortation to “Just cut yourself with heaven’s blade” is underscored by a rolling drum pattern and a serpentine violin figure.

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